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Who is Wyze?
Wyze is a high growth, Series B, consumer technology company. Our vision is to make great technology accessible to everyone through our smart home platform. Our aim is to serve everyday people, like me, you, and our friends and families, with too good to be true products and services. We want employees who will be inspired by this and welcome all who will help us build the next amazing chapter at Wyze.
Wyze is home to some of the most innovative products and services in the market. Time Magazine selected us for their 100 Most Influential Companies of 2022, Fast Company named us as one of the Most Innovative Companies in 2021 and PCMag gave our Cam v3 an Editor’s Choice Award. We disrupted the market with our Wyze Cam v1 and then quickly took over as a market leader in the space. We recently disrupted it again with our revolutionary Cam Plus Pro service. GeekWire calls us a start-up to watch and one of the Pacific Northwest’s next unicorns… and we are just getting started.
Our people centric innovative vision is not only present in our products and services, but it is also embedded in the fabric of our company. We were just listed in the Top 100 Best Places to Work by Built in Seattle, listed as one of their Best Midsize Companies to Work For and awarded as one of their Companies with the Best Benefits. Seattle Business Magazine certified us as a Best Places to Work too!
We value the unique life experiences every employee brings to work every day. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment whereby our employees are encouraged to be their authentic whole selves and are rewarded for their impact across the company. Everyone is welcome and empowered to do the best work of their lives.
Our stance on workplace flexibility:
For most roles, we support a 100% remote work environment for applicants who reside in the following states: California, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.
Come join us and make the impossible, possible!
What the Opportunity is:
We are seeking a *Senior Software Engineer* who brings a passion for connected home technology to help us advance Wzye's capabilities in the Home whilst delivering intuitive and delightful experiences to millions of customers.
Our team is developing the next ambitious revolution in the home automation space; an opportunity to build and next Alexa/ Google Assistant by designing highly scalable cloud back-end services to support large traffic volume under thorough network security consideration, designing simple and concise REST API interfaces for serving private and public utilization purposes, developing, deploying, patching and operating cloud-based back-end solutions.
We have an outstanding space and exciting road map in which to innovate, be challenged, and have an impact. Would you like to join us?
Responsibilities
- Craft technical solutions for scalable, secure, and operable cloud services
- Develop software solutions by studying information needs by conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas by following the software development life-cycle, identifying and resolving the ambiguities between business logic and implementation level
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
- Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code
- Improve operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures
- Staying ahead with state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations
- Protects operations by keeping information confidential
- Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- A willingness to dive deep, experiment rapidly, and get things done.
- Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs
- Possess excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and
- Ability to collaborate and effectively communicate highly technical data to various stakeholders
Qualifications
- Proficiency in Java, C#, C++, Python
- Solid experience in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (preferred)
- Experience with back-end server development, containers, NoSQL databases, Machine Learning, MapReduce, distributed file systems
- Solid fundamentals in OO design, patterns, data structures, and algorithms
- Proven track record of architecting performant scalable, secure, and reliable distributed services
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
- Ability to prioritize and strategize in a variety of project areas and take care of ambiguity in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- Demonstrated ownership of large multi-functional and multi-team projects
- Proven technical leadership, education, and team mentorship
- Bachelor, Master or Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or another degree with 6+ years of work experience as a software developer
Our Benefits
Wyze has a full benefits package through Premera, employee premiums will be paid 100%, Wyze covers, on average, 68.7% of the premium for spouse, child(ren), and family.
12 Holidays - 8 set holidays and 4 Floating Holidays for you to use however you choose
24 days of PTO every year
Additional Wyze anniversary vacation days
Principal 401k Plan - there is no company match at this time
Wyze employee product perks: When Wyze employees join, you will have the opportunity to select up to three products to try (pending availability based on inventory).
Employees will also have the opportunity to sign up for Wyze software services once they are launched.
We also have a generous employee discount on Wyze products.
Rosetta Stone reimbursement if you'd like to learn Mandarin
$50 a month reimbursed as a technology stipend - taxes apply
Come Join Us!
If this sounds too good to be true and you are ready to be part of #teamwyze, then we want to hear from you! Please send us a cover letter that showcases some of the outstanding things you can do and how you feel they could apply to our vision and projects here at Wyze!
We will ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation at recruiting@wyze.com.
Lastly, and exceptionally important to us: we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity as well as inclusion here at Wyze. We are fully committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. That’s how we do things!
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