About Care.com Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We're on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We're moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that.
Care.com offers an array of services that enable families to find, manage and pay for care and provide employment opportunities for caregivers. Our engineering organization is reimagining our tech stacks and consolidating to a single cloud native platform so we can test and learn faster. The new platform is composed of gRPC microservices and Lambdas in Go, Kafka streams, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and micro-frontends on Node and React. We're utilizing industry best practices and tools like OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Github, SignalFX, Figma, and others to make our lives easier.
Here, entrepreneurs, self-starters, team players, and big thinkers unite behind a common cause. Here, we're applying data analytics, AI, and the latest technologies to solve universal problems and connect people in new ways. If you like having autonomy, if you thrive on collaboration and building new things, and if you're all about using your talent for good, Care.com is the place for you.
What You'll Be Working On:
We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Technology team as an Architect. The candidate would join a small, agile team responsible for building our fulfillment platform. The candidate will be responsible for the analysis, design, programming, testing, documentation, and implementation of new product features.
Design and develop an extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed system that uses technologies such as:
• Java and J2EE technologies • Golang microservices deployed on Kubernetes with an Istio service mesh • gRPC and GraphQL APIs • AWS Lambdas • AWS Step Functions & Express Workflows • Amazon EventBridge • AWS DynamoDB • Postgres • AWS Cloud Development Kit • Kafka • Elasticsearch
Work with stakeholders in product management to understand business requirements. Work with other disciplines to drive cross-functional efforts. Shape development processes to promote a high-quality output while continuing to iterate quickly. Own and review deliverables for accuracy, quality, performance, and completeness. Work with team to create architecture and design documents, project timeline, and user stories.
Ability to lead and manage a globally distributed development team. Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of members of the team.
What You'll Need to Succeed:
10+ years of professional engineering experience 8+ years of deep experience designing and building high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems, with significant expertise in Java, Golang, or comparable backend technologies. BS or MS in Computer Science or a similar engineering discipline Experience with Microservices architecture is required. AWS experience is required, including knowledge of serverless technologies (Lambdas, DynamoDB, EventBridge) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/Istio). Experience leading a team (team/tech lead) and acting as a design authority or system architect for large-scale production projects. Ability to thrive as part of a multi-site development team.
Work Environment: Hybrid - We are in the office Monday, Wednesday & Thursday Our office locations: Austin - 816 Congress Ave. #800, Austin, TX 78701 Dallas - 2801 North Central Expressway, 11th Floor, Dallas, TX 75204 Salt Lake City - 1850 Ashton Blvd, Suite 500, Lehi, UT 84043
Company Overview: Available in more than 20 countries, Care.com is the worlds leading platform for finding and managing high-quality family care. Care.com is designed to meet the evolving needs of todays families and caregivers, offering everything from household tax and payroll services and customized corporate benefits packages covering the care needs of working families, to innovating new ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits. Since 2007, families have relied on Care.coms industry-leading products-from child and elder care to pet care and home care. Care.com is an IAC company (NASDAQ: IAC).
Salary Range: $180,000 to $200,000. The base salary range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the national salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Care.com's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Care.com provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a generous 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).
Care is a global need without geographic or demographic boundaries. At some point, every person and every family will have care needs, be it for children, seniors, pets or even homes. Our mission is to improve the lives of families and caregivers by helping them connect in a reliable and easy way. Our solutions help families make informed decisions in one of the most important and highly considered aspects of their family life: finding and managing quality care for their loved ones. In providing families a comprehensive marketplace for care, we are also building the largest global destination for quality caregivers to find fulfilling employment and career opportunities. We strive to help our members - families and caregivers - pursue their passions and fulfill the basic human need of caring for each other.
Founder and CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo wanted to transform the way families and businesses around the world address their care needs. Care.com launched in the U.S. in 2007 and today, we are the world's largest online marketplace for finding and managing family care, with more than 30.8 million members, spanning over 20 countries.
Care.com's premise is simple: Our consumer matching solutions allow families to search for, qualify, vet, connect with, and ultimately select caregivers in a low-cost, reliable and easy way. Our platform also provides caregivers with solutions to create personal profiles, describe their unique skills and experience, and otherwise differentiate themselves in a highly fragmented marketplace.
We understand that care is an exceptionally personal matter and impacts the most important aspect of families' lives which is why we provide an array of services and resources to help families make safer and more informed hiring decisions. The Care.com Safety Center offers a comprehensive Safety Guide, which details numerous tools, resources and tips to assist families through the search and hiring process. Through third-parties, we also offer three tiers of background checks which vary in comprehensiveness.
Care.com's global footprint began to expand in 2012 when we launched in the UK and Canada, followed by the acquisition of Berlin-based Besser Betreut, the largest online care portal in Europe. In every territory in which we operate, the fundamental service remains the same but is tailored to meet the unique cultural needs of its membership.
As Care.com has grown, so has the scope of the products and services we offer. Our consumer payments solutions enable families to not only electronically pay a caregiver but also subscribe for tax preparation services through our Care.com HomePay product. We have also expanded our marketplace beyond the direct family-to-caregiver interaction. We currently serve employers by providing access to our platform to more than 600,000 employer-sponsored families, and we enable care-related businesses, such as daycare centers, nanny agencies and home care agencies, to market their services to our care-seeking families and recruit our caregiver members.