Member of Technical Staff, Backend

Department: Research & Development

Location: San Francisco, CA

Compensation: $250K – $280K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

Envoy protects the places the world relies on most by unifying people, spaces, and communications in one secure, integrated workplace management platform and ecosystem. More than 16,000 workplaces around the world trust Envoy to run secure, compliant, and connected operations across every location.

From manufacturing sites and data centers to life sciences labs, healthcare facilities, and corporate headquarters, Envoy unifies visitor management, risk assessment, mailroom management, digital signage software, resource booking, and emergency management into one integrated platform.

With deep integrations across access control, identity, compliance screening, and collaboration tools—including LenelS2, Brivo, Genetec, Honeywell, Cisco Meraki, Okta, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, Slack, ServiceNow, DocuSign, Avigilon Alta, and Descartes Visual Compliance—Envoy helps organizations reduce risk, stay audit-ready, and operate with clarity at scale.

Learn more at envoy.com

This is an L5 opportunity. Successful candidates typically come from staff or principal-level roles and are recognized for establishing technical direction, leading large-scale initiatives, and shaping engineering strategy across organizations.

About the role

At Envoy we’re writing the operating system for the modern office: a fully‑integrated platform that lets employees reserve desks and rooms, greet visitors, track deliveries, receive emergency alerts, and see interactive maps of the workplace —while our real‑time pipelines unify badge swipes, Wi‑Fi pings, sensors, and more into a single analytics engine that facilities teams use to right‑size space and budgets. This infrastructure already powers 16,000 workplaces and 9,000+ companies—including names like Netflix, Disney, GitHub, and Nvidia—and it’s the only solution on the market that truly connects people, spaces, and data end‑to‑end. Join our lean, product‑driven engineering team and you’ll design resilient micro‑services, build blazing‑fast mobile experiences, craft models that predict occupancy, and ship features that shape how millions collaborate every day. If you want to solve juicy real‑world problems at global scale—and see your code light up offices around the world—come build the future of work with us.

This on-site position requires 4 days a week (Monday through Thursday) in our San Francisco HQ office.

You will

• Stand up new services that improve the safety, reliability, and accuracy of our access control systems

• Examine, improve, and challenge the existing modalities of how we manage ACS today

• Collaborate with team members to bounce ideas off each other and see the delivery of value to customers from start to finish

• Design MVPs with strong technical foundations, and iterate on them with product feedback

You have

• A BS / MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience or coding experience

• Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs at scale (REST, GraphQL, JSON/HTTP)

• Production expertise with TypeScript or Kotlin, including debugging complex issues in live environments

• A product mindset — you care deeply about usability, performance, and measurable impact

• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering partners

• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and taking ownership to drive outcomes

• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts: message queues, data sharding, auto-scaling, and efficient access patterns

• Track record of architecting fault-tolerant systems and applying resilience patterns in practice, at scale

• Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals, design patterns, and common anti-patterns

Your values

• You take ownership for outcomes, driving work forward end-to-end and following through on impact, not just implementation

• You have a high bar for everything you build — including the way it looks, feels, and works — and you’re willing to spend the time necessary to achieve quality to winning standards

• You communicate clearly and value collaboration and constructive feedback

• You balance technical excellence with delivery, adapting as priorities evolve

• You are curious and motivated to continuously learn and improve

• You thrive in a team environment and take pride in shared success

You'll get

• The chance to make an immediate impact on how companies create better workplace experiences.

• Trust and autonomy to propose ideas, drive execution, and own meaningful outcomes.

• Collaboration with talented teammates across Engineering, Product, and Design.

• A welcoming, inclusive community that values authenticity, learning, and belonging.

• Support for your growth, both personally and professionally.

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