mmhmm is an all-in-one platform for making, watching, and talking on videos. We’re on a mission to make video an everyday tool that’s accessible to everyone to communicate in the modern workplace. We believe that making a video should feel as effortless as sending a text message, as quick as a chat, and as human as a coffee break.

Founded in May 2020, mmhmm is a fully distributed, global company that builds products and services to make the Out-of-Office (OOO) work lifestyle possible.

mmhmm is an All Turtles company. All Turtles is a globally distributed product studio that solves meaningful problems.

As a backend engineer at mmhmm, you’ll work as part of a small cross-functional team of frontend and backend engineers to create the next generation of features for our product. While your day-to-day responsibilities will focus on development of backend APIs, systems and infrastructure, you’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to the product definition and the overall system architecture.

The mmhmm backend runs as a serverless application on AWS. It’s written in Go, runs in Lambda, and persists data in S3, DynamoDB and RDS. We make extensive use of AWS managed services and third party infrastructure - our core philosophy is to build only what’s needed to bring our product vision to life, building on top of the well-established work of others whenever we can.

You’re the right person for this job if you’re self-managing, love to work on small teams, take pride in the quality of both the code and products that you create, crave variety in your work, and are comfortable working in any part of the server-side stack.

You will be responsible for:

  • Design and development of backend APIs and services.
  • Building both quick prototypes and robust production systems.
  • Planning and coordinating with frontend engineers who will be consuming your APIs.
  • Helping to set the technical direction for the service backend, including choosing new components of the tech stack, evolving the service architecture and defining client-facing APIs.

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Spent at least 5 years in professional software engineering roles.
  • Strong backend engineering skills, including API and database design.
  • Built complex, cloud-native product backends from scratch.
  • Deep experience with AWS.
  • Experience programming in Go, or an eagerness and aptitude for learning new languages.
  • Experience with both relational and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB) databases and a point-of-view on how to choose between them.
  • Exceptional communication skills, with an aptitude to convey clear thoughts and ideas.
  • A track record of delivering on ambitious goals and a well-calibrated sense of how to balance perfect vs. done. You know how to ship.
  • Worked in a startup environment. You’re comfortable with ambiguity and change.
  • Experience with streaming video. This is a plus, but not required.

This is a full-time, permanent position reporting to the VP of Engineering. This role is a remote position, and can be based in any location. Since our distributed team works primarily across US time zones, US-based applicants are preferred. We offer comprehensive insurance benefits to our employees and their qualifying dependents, in addition to flexible vacation, a 401(k), parental leave, and a suite of optional benefits and perks programs.

Our Principles

As a company, we realize that talent is evenly distributed throughout the world, but opportunity is not. We believe that you should work where you can have the best impact, and live where you can have the best life.

Compensation

Compensation is based on an employee’s contribution to the company, not on where they live or how they have been paid in their past jobs. We have standardized, nationwide compensation levels that are set according to everyone’s job. The levels are calculated annually, based on collecting national compensation data, and weighted to be competitive in the most expensive markets for each country.

Distributed Facilities Supplement

We are a fully distributed team, however it is still our responsibility to make sure that employees have a safe, healthy, and productive work environment. We provide each employee with a monthly distributed facilities supplement for them to spend on whatever each employee thinks will give them a healthier and more productive work environment.

Turtle-Crossing Bonus

We believe that in-person time is precious and best spent building, rather than spending, ‘relationship capital’. To encourage those moments to take place, we offer a ‘Turtle-Crossing’ bonus to employees when they meet in person to build and strengthen relationships with one another.

Health and Vacation Programs

We also offer comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance to our employees and their dependents, where available, as well as parental leave and unlimited vacation (plus an annual vacation bonus).

All Turtles and mmhmm are committed to creating and fostering a diverse team. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. We’re committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all applicants throughout the application process.

 

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