Paperless Post: Lead Polyglot Engineer

Paperless Post is seeking a senior software engineer to help build large-scale cross-platform applications for a high-traffic environment. You will play a vital role on the team that is responsible for the graphics engine and the sophisticated applications and services at the core of our design and customization process. To stay nimble in responding to complex product needs, you'll use an innovative mix of cutting-edge technologies that goes above and beyond the traditional web stack. 
 
What you’ll do here
  • Improve the architecture of our cross-platform graphics engine.
  • Balance the benefits of portable code reuse with the benefits of platform-specific native modules.
  • Develop new features and evolve the existing suite of user-facing design tools, working closely with our Product Management and Product Design teams.
  • Build and maintain beautiful, portable, and performant components.
  • Become the best child/spouse/sibling/friend because you’ll send more greeting cards than you ever thought possible.
 
What you bring to the table
You absolutely must have hard skills, a good attitude, and demonstrated experience playing a key role in shipping something significant. Beyond that, we’re open-minded. Things that spark our interest:
  • Diverse technical background with technologies such as JavaScript, C/C++, image processing, Objective-C/Swift/iOS,  Ruby, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Node.js, Android/Java, or OpenGL/WebGL, or a deep knowledge in related technologies.
  • Experience with graphics programming or related technologies.
  • Experience with cross-platform architecture/development and an interest in designing and building complex Linux-based and distributed systems.
  • Experience helping scale something substantial such as traffic, code, people, or infrastructure.
  • A drive to know why and how something is done to ensure it is always being done in the best way possible.
  • An open mind and the ability to be opinionated but not dogmatic.
  • Comfort backing ideas up with logic and communicating your arguments clearly and effectively.
  • Humility, gumption, moxie, and other fun, old-timey synonyms for that type of can-do attitude.
 
A little about the team
The Create team enjoys the privilege and responsibility of building the part of our platform that people use to express themselves and connect with the people they care about. Because our work is central to Paperless Post’s product offering, we’re in the unique position of working cross-functionally with a wide variety of teams—whether we’re designing and consuming back-end APIs, delivering the graphics engine for our iOS app, or working closely with the UX and the Customer Support teams to stay in touch with our users. We strive to design a perfect suite of tools that allows even a neophyte user to design beautiful, custom invitations for their most memorable life occasions.
 
Company-wide we enjoy an amazing ecosystem of an even gender split and healthy balance of engineers and designers. Because Paperless Post isn’t supported by ad revenue, we get to spend our days focused on creating and improving on the ideal version of our platform, product, content, and partnerships for our users.

To apply please visit: https://www.paperlesspost.com/about/jobs/167468
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