Engineering Manager, Backend Services

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The Role

Lark is seeking a talented hands-on Engineering Manager to join our growing team that will be responsible for the real-time data ingestion pipeline that powers our conversations. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, be hands-on, strong leadership skills to manage all aspects of the team to include: hiring, mentoring, planning & working collaboratively across the organization.  On the technical front you will need to perform code reviews, be familiar with latest best practices, proposing & reviewing technical designs.

As an example, the team will evaluate the data showing the user on a walk, recording a blood glucose reading.  The next conversation they have with the app might include those data points. These events would be used to trigger other flows in real time, or asynchronously, and sent to our data engineering team / data-lake for reporting.

What You'll Do

  • Work collaboratively across engineering, product and project management teams to ensure projects are well communicated, aligned and managed
  • Participate in the Agile development process, including scoping, technical design, estimation effort, coding, testing, debugging, code reviews, maintenance and support
  • Own the deployments, oncall, monitor reliability and performance of all your services, ensure that we have comprehensive dashboards 
  • Collaborate with engineering technical program managers, product managers to ensure the services are developed according to specifications and needed timelines
  • Responsible for quality and testing for your services, making sure that everything is developed to the highest standards of quality with fully automated testing
  • Responsible for growing the team, hiring, mentoring, coaching and reviews

What You'll Need

  • Be a strong technical hands-on collaborative leader with experience in building both backend services and applications dealing with real time processing of data
  • Strong project management skills and experience with agile/scrum
  • Experience with real time events processing at scale, such as Kafka and related technologies
  • Prior experience in Big Data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark or similar
  • Experiences with Apache Pinot, Apache Druid, ElasticSearch are also highly desirable
  • Extensive hands on experience and ability to code and review code from your team
  • Experience working with an agile process
  • Experience with Java / Javascript / Typescript / Python
  • Expert knowledge of Go is a plus
  • Prior experience in AWS and Kubernetes are big plus

Education and Experience:

  • B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 12+ years of experience in engineering of backend services
  • 5+ years of experience as a lead or manager of a team providing backend services

JOIN US

Lark is a companion that lives on the user’s phone and provides daily coaching, guidance, and health insights to users. We are on a mission to make the world a healthier, happier place. Come join our team!

 

About Lark

Lark is the world's largest A.I. healthcare provider, servicing nearly 2 million patients suffering from or at risk of chronic disease with A.I. Nurses. Lark uses cutting-edge AI and connected health monitors to provide real-time unlimited 24/7 text-based counseling to help users make healthier choices and manage their conditions. Lark’s A.I. Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), Smoking Cessation, Behavioral Health, Weight Loss, Diabetes Care, and Hypertension Programs have demonstrated clinically validated outcomes published in 11 peer-reviewed journals and analyst reports. Lark’s DPP, which is now the second-largest and lowest cost DPP in the country, has received the highest clinical certification - CDC Full Recognition. Lark works with some of the largest payers and self-insured employers to help them manage 30.5 million members to live healthier lives. Forrester Research has named Lark "Most Innovative Digital Health Product of the Year", Lark, Uber, Airbnb, WeChat were named the 10 Most Innovative Companies in the World, and Apple named Lark "Top 10 Apps of the Year" against a pool of over 2 million apps.

 

Working at Lark 

Lark offers the option to work remotely in the United States.  For Colorado Applicants only: minimum annual salary is $XX,XXX (minimum salary varies for other geographies). You may also be offered a bonus, stock options and/or benefits.  We have identified the “core” period of the day during which all employees are required to work for scheduled meetings, syncs, scrums between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Pacific time. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Lark is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We believe that diverse teams foster innovation and add to our mission-driven culture. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.


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