Senior Software Engineer

Company Overview

Valimail is a fast growing, venture funded startup and the leader in Email Authentication as a Service. Here is your chance to get in on the ground floor at an important technology innovator and to help build a major business service category. We have built a revolutionary platform on top of open standards — DMARC, DKIM, and SPF — for the first time it makes it possible for any organization to protect itself against email impersonation. Valimail pioneered the notion of automated email authentication, with innovative components like our DNS-based Authenticator (including our patented Instant SPF). We’re committed to building a more trusted email 

Position Overview 

Valimail is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team - you will be working on our Enforce, Align, and Monitor products. In this role, you would be working to build out new features in Ruby on Rails and/or Golang.  You will be working on an agile team that is helping to build out our industry leading SaaS DMARC application, building out APIs and other improvements to the platform.  Additionally, this individual will stay up to date with industry trends, bringing that innovation into their day to day work. This team values shared common goals and the adaptability needed to reach those goals, clear communication, and a desire to work cross-functionally.

The ideal candidate regularly demonstrates our behaviors/values (Be inclusive, Be Trustworthy, Be a Learner and Be Driven) in addition to demonstrating a strong technical acumen. 

Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented classes will only apply to roles if they feel they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Valimail, we encourage you to break through that statistic. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need in the future. NO ONE ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We hope you're open to learning new skills in order to grow with us. Make our team, your team!

The application window for this role will close on May 27, 2024.

What You'll Be Doing: 

• Collaborating in a stable high performance software system
• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Building and maintaining applications in EITHER fullstack Ruby on Rails OR Go and have semi-significant exposure to both languages
• Demonstrating ownership over features and fixes and work hand-in-hand with cross functional teams including other Engineering teams and Product
• Providing and receive constructive feedback
• Improving development processes by identifying inefficiencies in workflows and providing effective, measurable solutions
• Determining and understanding the full scope of a project prior to beginning to work on it, and the concessions needed to provide on-time delivery
• Evangelizing and driving the adoption of standard processes relating to code health, testability, maintainability, and scalability
• Providing technical expertise throughout the product life cycle including design, implementation, and delivery of scalable build/test/release infrastructure
• Helping to define the selection, improvement, and adoption of developer tools across the Engineering organization
• Influencing and educating peers through PR reviews and pair-programming

About You: 

• 5+ years of experience in building production web applications 
• Significant experience in Ruby on Rails or Go
• Ability and desire to learn and develop in different programming languages. 
• Proficient understanding of how to write, analyze and optimize PostgreSQL
• Experience developing RESTful APIs
• Demonstrates a deep proficiency in your craft and seeks to continuously improve.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Hotwire, React, Redis, RSpec, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes

Who We Are

Valimail is the global leader in zero-trust email security. The company's full line of cloud-native solutions authenticate sender identity to stop phishing, protect brands, and ensure compliance; they are used by organizations ranging from neighborhood shops to some of the world's largest organizations, including Uber, Splunk, Yelp, Mercedes Benz USA, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Valimail is the fastest-growing DMARC solution with the largest global market share and is the premier DMARC partner for Microsoft 365 environments. 

Why Join Us?

• Competitive pay + participation in employee stock option plan. The anticipated salary range for this role is $160,000 - 190,000. This role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive plan.  Actual title and compensation is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
• Comprehensive health, dental, + vision coverage
• Eight weeks of paid maternity leave & Four weeks of paid paternity leave (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition)
• Remote First Company, you can work anywhere within the US
• Unlimited and flexible PTO. We believe balanced, happy, relaxed people do better work

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