What You’ll Do
As a vital member of the Calm Engineering team, the Software Engineer will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining backend systems that support our mobile and web applications. This position involves collaborating closely with a diverse team of engineers, designers, and product managers to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of our products. Key responsibilities include:
- Effectively work with stakeholders to gather requirements, define project scope, and develop technical specifications
- Participate in the development and implementation of complex features and services across the technology stack, collaborating cross-functionally with QA, DevOps, PMs, and client engineers to ensure smooth development and deployment process
- Write high-quality, well-documented, and easily maintainable code that adheres to industry standard best-practices for both backend and frontend development
- Ensure high test coverage for all code, including unit and integration tests
- Implementing features with instrumentation and monitoring across the entire technology stack to detect system errors and performance issues
Who You Are
- Proficiency in frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Familiarity with backend programming languages such as GoLang and TypeScript/Node.js.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP and AWS
- Experience with relational databases and SQL (Postgres).
- Experience with REST API-based microservices design
- Proven experience working effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment as part of a collaborative team
- Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and tackle challenging problems
- Proficiency in writing unit and integration tests in a CI/CD environment
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Provides helpful, pragmatic and timely code reviews to others
- Effectively work with leads across products to leverage institutional knowledge to solve complex problems
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
Nice to Haves
- Past experience building apps in highly controlled industries, i.e., healthcare
Minimum Requirements
- This role typically requires 5+ years of related experience
The base salary ranges below represent the low and high end of Calm’s salary range for this position in various geographic locations. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. Exact salary will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate’s geographic location, skills, experience and other qualifications.In the United States, Calm has four geographic pay zones. For this position, the base pay ranges for candidates in each zone are:
Zone A: $159,300-$223,000
Zone B: $143,370-$200,700
Zone C: $135,405-$189,550
Zone D: $127,440-$178,400
This role is also eligible for equity + comprehensive benefits + 401k + flexible time off.
Please note that Calm may leverage artificial intelligence technology in the application review process.
Calm is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. Please contact Calm’s Recruiting team if you need a reasonable accommodation, assistance completing any forms, or to otherwise participate in the application process. You can reach the Recruiting team at
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Calm is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We strive to create a mindful and respectful environment where everyone can bring their authentic self to work, and experience a culture that is free of harassment, racism, and discrimination.
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