Senior Software Engineer, Platform Development
What if you could change the way the world communicates?
What if you had the freedom of a startup and the resources of a global enterprise?
You’d break new ground. Raise the bar for performance. And do career-defining work.
That’s exactly the kind of environment we’re building together at RingCentral.
RingCentral's cloud-based communications platform connects more than 2 million users around the world, in ways that bring people, ideas, companies and customers together.
The Innovation team is the engine that makes RingCentral go. From Engineering to UX/UI to CloudOps, this is the place where the biggest ideas in cloud communications are imagined, developed, and delivered. If there’s a better way to bring people together, RingCentral Innovation is finding it, iterating on it, and sharing it with the world.
As a member of the RingCentral Engineering team, you’ll solve complex, business-critical problems with elegant, user-friendly solutions that perform at massive scale. It’s a once-in-a-career chance to get your hands on the latest-and-greatest technologies, and build the platform that’s reshaping the way the world communicates.
RingCentral surrounds you with world-class technology and talent, in a people-first environment built from the ground up to help you do the best work of your career. We’re not just changing the nature of communication and teamwork. We’re winning, together.
We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our tight-knit Platform Team. You must have a talent for solving complex problems, and architecting and implementing new solutions; while being equally talented at understanding and supporting a complex business-critical SaaS system in production. You must love creating elegant interfaces that can satisfy the functional, performance, scale and availability expectations of the RingCentral platform.
Responsibilities:
- Build our platform using your strong background in server technologies including core java and Node.js
- Write server-side REST APIs for the platform. The platform and APIs will be used by developers within the company and by external developer communities. They will be used to develop web-based and mobile applications, for individual users or large partner integrations used by multiple customers.
- Build quality tools and frameworks for application developers
- Support and enhance robust high-volume mission-critical production applications while maintaining stringent SLAs.
- Maintain and fix issues that come up on existing platform. Track issues through usage in external application and dependencies on core product functionalities.
- Be the last level of tech support escalation on tough technical issues from production.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent, is required.
- 4+ years of relevant work experience, including platform software design and development experience.
- Team player, comfortable working alone or in local teams or with remote teams.
- Good communication skills.
- Expertise in designing, building and maintaining complex high volume applications. Understand and implement code to scale up and scale out gracefully on high throughput highly scalable applications.
- Strong understanding of, and practical experience with JavaScript web application development using REST APIs.
- Expertise in modern caching technologies including distributed caches.
- Good understanding of large scale storage systems including SQL and NoSQL
- Good understanding of Agile and test-driven development.
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux and shell scripting.
Benefits and Amenities:
- Centrally located in Belmont, CA (close to highways 101, 280, and 92)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision
- Flexible PTO
- 401K match and ESPP
- Complimentary organic breakfast and lunch daily, and fully stocked break rooms
- On-site gym with free yoga and boot-camp classes
About RingCentral
RingCentral is the worldwide leader in cloud-based communications. Our software communications platform delivers phone, group chat, mobile communications, video calls, videoconference, contact center and AI-driven digital engagement. It’s a powerful, global presence that allows businesses to communicate anywhere, anytime with anyone.
RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California and has offices around the world.
RingCentral is an equal opportunity employer that truly values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.