AssembledAS

Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Assembled is building software to transform and elevate customer support teams, which often represent 20-50% of the people at a company. Our workforce management platform helps some of the fastest-growing, most innovative companies in the world—including Stripe, Zoom, and Robinhood—to schedule, forecast, and organize their support teams.

Assembled

Employee count: 51-200

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Assembled is building software to transform and elevate customer support teams, which often represent 20-50% of the people at a company. Our workforce management platform helps some of the fastest-growing, most innovative companies in the world—including Stripe, Etsy, and Robinhood—to schedule, forecast, and organize their support teams. We’ve raised $70m in funding from the likes of NEA, Emergence Capital, and Stripe itself. You’ll be joining a special group of people who learned the ropes at companies like Stripe, Google, Atlassian, Twitter, Airbnb, Looker, NEA, Bain, and more.

We’ve been fortunate to serve a fast-growing user base. In 2021 alone, we’re serving 3x the number of customers and an order of magnitude more support agents. To support this demand, we’ve had to rework critical components of our infrastructure.

Some examples include improving our caching to deliver millions of real-time, user-facing metrics or building data pipelines to support ML models that predict volume and generate staffing requirements. This team might be right for you if:

  • You have extensive cloud computing knowledge, from storage, to compute, to networking, to deploying. Our team uses primarily AWS for this, so prior experience in AWS would be a plus but not required
  • You have built large scale continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
  • You have orchestrated and managed large scale data platforms such as Airflow, Kafka, or Jenkins
  • You have built a wide range of developer tools and systems that can help enable product engineers to safely and efficiently ship out new features, such as end to end testing, canary deploys, automatic regressions testing.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure site stability: At any given time, this might mean addressing server resource issues, resolving network outages, or investigating database performance regressions. You would be helping us enhance every facet of our infrastructure, from the barebones machine monitoring to designing alert flows so that the right teams can be notified of issues.
  • Improve developer tooling: With experience at companies like Airbnb and Stripe, we understand the causal link between infrastructure and product velocity. We’re investing in scaling our code base and adding developer tools to balance shipping code quickly with high code quality and site reliability.
  • Deploy and maintain high-leverage systems: We utilize systems like PostgreSQL as our primary data store, Redis for caching, Amazon SQS for queueing, Grafana for monitoring, and more. You will be responsible for the full portfolio of systems, including scoping and deploying new ones (e.g. Kubernetes or Docker) as well as maintaining, deprecating, and/or refactoring usage patterns of the existing systems.
  • Design high throughput data ingestion pipelines: At our core, we are a data analysis company. Every day we sync millions of ticket and agent states data, and on top of that we compute derived metrics on this data. You would help us up level our existing metrics pipelines so we can support the ever growing throughput of data ingestion.
  • Wear many hats: In addition to writing and reviewing code, you'll find yourself talking to users, planning the roadmap, brainstorming positioning, interviewing future teammates, and collaborating with the Business team on product releases and launches.

About You

  • 5+ years of experience building and maintaining infrastructure components and services at scale
  • Track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects to improve process and reliability
  • Experience scaling relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
  • Experience with the inner workings of Linux, containerized environments, and container orchestration technologies
  • Proficiency with Go (preferred) or some other backend language

Our U.S. benefits

  • Generous medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Paid company holidays, sick time, and unlimited time off
  • Monthly credits to spend on each: professional development, general wellness, Assembled customers, commuting and community-support agriculture (CSA)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Hybrid work model with catered lunches everyday (M-F), snacks, and beverages in our SF NY offices
  • 401(k) plan enrollment

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Jun 03, 2024

Posted on

Apr 04, 2024

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid-level

Location requirements

Hiring timezones

Canada +/- 0 hours, and 1 other timezone

About Assembled

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Customer service teams deserve better.

We are a fast-thinking, fast-moving, empathy-driven team inspired by one main goal: to create intelligent systems in service of people helping people. We've started on this path by addressing the very real, very underserved needs of customer support teams.

Our story begins with a love of math.

Yep. We get a thrill out of helping others solve math problems to unlock human potential. In fact, we believe that the worst customer experiences are usually a result of imbalanced variables, which means not having the right people at the right place at the right time. The best part about this: it’s solvable. And we really love when that happens (BTW, we’re into other things aside from math.)

We're backed by the best

We’re also lucky to have some amazing individual investors, including Jay Simons (former Atlassian), Jack Altman (CEO, Lattice), Des Traynor (Founder, Intercom), and Alison Pickens (former Gainsight).

Challenges we face today

They make things harder, but they also motivate us to keep going.

Support & Tech = ? Despite its rising importance, customer support tends to be in the shadow of buzzier, trendy technology, but it also means that we get to build a place where only the truly passionate people self-select into.

We see what others can't. Seeing the opportunity that others don’t can be daunting. We saw this firsthand at Stripe, and took the lesson with us: hard, non-obvious problems are the most rewarding to solve.

Not just selling software. We’re also in the business of showing our customers what superior support looks like. This means we need to give just as much thought to ‘support R&D’ as we do our product roadmap.

Your job matters

Today's support team carries a massive burden. They are responsible for protecting their company's brand in every single customer interaction, but lack the resources to do this quickly or at scale. They're asked to do more with less — less budget, fewer people, and old-school solutions.

The momentum we've seen to date tells us just how much support teams need better tooling, but we've only just started down the path. We still have many miles to travel relative to the total opportunity, which means every person who joins Assembled has massive influence in our journey to transform customer support.

What we believe in

Or, better stated — here’s how we behave as a team. Our values are inspired by the best support teams, who in turn power the best customer experiences.

  • Act like a support agent. It's a mentality and an operating principle. It means meeting every challenge with rigor, empathy, and efficiency. Doing it because you care. Listening first, solutioning next.

  • Get on the plane. We are biased towards action, and don’t wait to pitch in, help out, or to go the extra mile, every time. Sometimes, you just need to get on the plane — literally and figuratively.

  • Make feedback a gift. The beauty of Assembled is rooted in the interplay of two traits — our diversity of perspectives and backgrounds and our willingness to give and receive feedback.

How do I know if I'm a good fit for Assembled?

There’s no one kind of person who joins Assembled. In fact, that’s what makes us special — we encourage different perspectives, love untraditional paths, and seek out folks who are “spiky” in something, whether soft skills or technical acumen or anything in between. For us, it’s not just about being good at your job; it’s about bringing something special to the table.

There’s also what binds us together. It’s all about channeling the support agent in everything we do — finding answers to tricky questions, bringing positivity to tough situations, lending a hand it’s needed, and listening before acting. Underlying all of this is empathy, for each other and for our customers.

We're building a championship team.

We're an eclectic mix of ambitious, curious, entrepreneurial, and humble. It's what makes us unique as individuals, and successful as a collective. Above us, we're united by an authentic desire to tackle the worthy problems that no one else sees. Come join us on the ride of a lifetime!

Employee benefits

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Retirement benefits

401K through Guideline.

Commuter benefits

For those who choose to work in-office.

Company events

Happy hour every other week. (Office only)

Unlimited time off

Paid sick time/holidays and unlimited PTO.

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Assembled

Company size

51-200

Founded in

2018

Chief executive officer

Ryan Wang

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