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About FathomWe created Fathom to eliminate the needless overhead of meetings. Our AI assistant captures, summarizes, and organizes the key moments of your calls, so you and your team can stay fully present without sacrificing context or clarity. From instant, searchable call summaries to seamless CRM updates and team-wide sharing, Fathom transforms meetings from a source of friction into a place for alignment and momentum.We’re a small company that creates magical experiences through the hard work of focused builders. We try to live our values - Care Deeply, Seek Leverage, Share Ownership, Sustain Urgency, and Be Tenacious - in everything we do, every day.We started Fathom to rid us all of the tyranny of note-taking.Role overviewWe are looking for a backend engineer who is passionate about improving reliability, scalability, and efficiency of mission-critical services, and who is equally comfortable developing new services or tackling long-tail problems with existing services.As part of our team, you’ll play a critical role in improving customer experiences by scaling our services and contributing to our culture of innovation and continuous improvement. You’ll work closely with our backend, infrastructure, and application engineers, as well as our outstanding customer support team to deliver an unmatched customer experience.How you’ll help us winContribute to our collection of highly-scalable services (some stateless, some stateful). Our services run in multiple regions, are engineered to support spiky but predictable workloads, and are deployed via multi-stage rollouts to build confidence in the correctness and efficiency of changes.By 30 DaysUse your background to understand and improve existing services under the supervision of existing team membersAnalyze the cost models of our services and suggest areas of and strategies for new operational efficienciesBy 90 DaysLead the development of new services such as (1) a k8s operator to control a service’s lifecycle or (2) a cloud storage caching layerPlay a key role in technology evaluations and architecture evolution discussionsHarden and productize internally or externally developed libraries and services.By 1 YearWork with our infrastructure and application engineers to re-evaluate the relationship between our backend services and our user-facing application, and drive improvements of scalability without introducing unnecessary frictionRequirementsHard SkillsProficiency with k8s and Go, including a strong understanding of garbage collection and profiling. Experience with Cgo is a bonus.Familiarity with our tech stack (or equivalents): GCP/GKE, Linux, Docker, Ruby/Rails, Redis, ffmpegExperience in a SaaS or PaaS environment at our scale (currently 100s of millions of async jobs per week). Experience with video streaming at scale is a bonus.Soft SkillsCuriosity-driven and pragmatic with a focus on delivering resultsA generalist mindset with the ability to dive deep into a wide range of challengesResilience, attention to detail, and an ability to grind through complex problemsOpenness to disagreement and commitment to decisions once madeStrong collaborative skills, with the ability to explain complex insights in an accessible manner to both technical and non-technical audiencesIndependence in managing one’s workload and prioritiesWhat’s in it for youThe opportunity to shape the foundational software services of a growing companyA role that balances innovation and incremental improvementA dynamic and collaborative engineering teamCompetitive compensation and benefitsA supportive environment that encourages innovation and personal growthWhy you should join usOpportunity for impact. We’re established enough to ship instead of fighting fires and early enough that your work will have a real impact.Startup experience. You’ll work closely with our CEO, a 2X Founder/CEO with a background in computer science and product design.We embrace being fully remote. We schedule meetings sparingly and instead heavily use async comms (Slack, Notion, Loom)About the interviewNo live coding. We have no idea who thought writing code on whiteboards was a good idea but we hate it. We’re much more interested in what you’ve done and learned.You’ll meet the entire team. We think it’s important that you get to meet everyone you’ll be working with.No bullshit. Ask us anything you like. We’d rather you know who we are up front so we can both make sure this is a good fit for all involved.Quick turnaround time. We move fast usually in less than a week from start to finish.
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