About Us

Are you ready to work for a high-growth company making a huge impact in the lives of parents and babies around the world? Owlet Baby Care, the award-winning startup that transformed the baby industry in 2015 with its first-of-its-kind Smart Sock baby monitor, is looking for a Sr Software Engineer on the backend platform. This exciting role will help shape and cultivate product go-to-market strategies, proving to parents why Owlet dominates the baby industry.

After creating its own category within infant health, Owlet became widely recognized by top tech experts, pediatricians and hundreds of thousands of parents looking for a solution to keeping their babies safe and happy through technology. Owlet is now looking for someone with a passion for baby wellness to drive revenue growth and to continue positioning the company as the leader in the smart nursery space. You will be a key leader to bring its mission of providing the right information at the right time to parents everywhere.

You will also have the unique opportunity of working on up and coming, category-creating products, including the new Owlet Band pregnancy monitor. This pregnancy tracker is another first-of-its-kind category creation that has won two distinctive awards at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for Best Wearable and Tech to Change the World.

Our mission is simple: We are here to help keep every baby safe and to help every parent find more joy in the parenthood journey.

At Owlet, your skills can help infants sleep safe and sound. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. We’re looking for engineers to help us build the Owlet IoT back-end platform.

What You'll Do

Our ideal Software Engineer will be an integral contributor to the current and next generation of our platform. You'll work on multiple projects to improve our platform across our Sock, Camera and Band product lines as well as our core infrastructure.

You will:

• Design and build RESTful APIs (used internally and by our customer app)
• Have ownership of your development through design, prototyping, and implementation
• Participate in regular code reviews to build the best possible software
• Propose and implement performance optimizations and scaling strategies
• Write detailed documentation (commit messages, processes, and system architectures)
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technology
• Deliver resilient, robust and durable solutions, contributing to the ongoing improvement of our systems
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure stellar uptime for our customers

Our stack

The majority of our code is Python, with some javascript (node + react) sprinkled in.
We work mostly in GCP (and some AWS) using Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, Redis, Spanner, BigTable, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Flask, etc.
We are a full-stack hardware company and work closely with the firmware and app (ios and android) development teams.

What You Need to Get the Job Done (Minimum Qualifications)

• 5+ years of software engineering work experience
• Experienced writing clean, scalable Python code
• Highly collaborative problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
• An ability to explain your ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and work well with team members
• Experience with collaborative source control, preferably GIT
• Your code is readable, testable, and understandable years later.
• Experience working with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP)
• Pride in the quality of your work

What Will Make Us REALLY Love you (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience developing and deploying with kubernetes
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity building microservices and distributed systems
• Work history within a larger product team
• Experience load testing and performance tuning
• Ability to perform devops tasks (CI pipelines, bash scripts and IaC)
• Ability to break down costs of hundreds of thousands of devices hitting APIs and storing data
• Familiarity with:
  •  Go
  •  React
  •  IoT devices
  •  MQTT

What You'll Love About Us

We have a product that changes lives for the better. That's not just a marketing line. Customer stories are shared weekly demonstrating how our products have impacted their lives. Plus, you get access to:

• Competitive compensation based on experience
• Standard Benefits (Health, Dental, Vision, Life)
• Flexible schedules
• Fully Remote or WFH available
• Unlimited PTO
• 10 Paid holidays
• 401(k) match
• Discounts on Owlet Products