[Wattpad] Engineer, Client Enablement Services

Wattpad: Unleash the Power of Stories 📖

Wattpad's vision is to entertain and connect the world through webnovel stories. Since 2006, we've been on a mission to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. Representing a tapestry of cultures and languages, millions of people around the world come to Wattpad every month to share and discover stories they can't find anywhere else. Come build the future of entertainment and storytelling with our global team, and write your next chapter with us!

Join the Client Enablement Services Team 🌐

As part of the Client Enablement Services team, you'll have the opportunity to create and work on the platforms that power Wattpad, focusing on the Public APIs used by web, mobile, and clients. If you have a passion for high-impact engineering and working across teams, this is the place to be! We have a strong team culture of collaboration in a number of domains key to the Wattpad experience. If you have enthusiasm for working on a platform that means a lot to millions of people around the world, we would be thrilled to have you join us.

Your Responsibilities 🛠️

• Design, build, and maintain functionality on a large-scale distributed system serving millions of people per day.
• Build new features, tools, and services in PHP and Go.
• Improve reliability and performance of core components and existing systems.
• Write tests for all your work.
• Define best practices and provide mentorship and support to other engineers.
• Research and implement new technology to solve tomorrow's scaling issues.
• Advocate for the adoption of best practices, systems, and tools across the engineering organization.

What We're Looking For 🔍

• 3+ years of experience in a prior SaaS engineering role.
• Experience working with cloud platforms as a service (AWS, GCP, etc.).
• Skilled in Go or PHP (or similar language).
• Love learning and applying your knowledge in novel ways.
• Enjoy working with a team but have no problem working independently.
• Write clean, readable code that communicates its intents and methods clearly to future engineers (but you can also deal with code that isn't and doesn't).
• Nothing makes you happier than a hard problem solved well (and has "just the right" amount of documentation).

Bonus Points 🌟

• Experience with monitoring distributed systems at scale.
• Exposure to Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, or EKS.
• Worked with REST APIs and/or gRPC.
• Worked with Kafka.
• Worked with CI systems such as Github Actions.

Our Offer 🎁

• Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals.
• Health benefits, including vision and dental!
• RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA).
• Generous vacation and Parental Leave Top-up.
• Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family.
• Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!

Compensation 💰

$110,000 -$130,000 a year

Please note, the above range is in CAD.

About Wattpad 📚

Who are we? Entrepreneurs and Do-ers. Our vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories, and our mission is to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world.

What does that mean? We are visionaries, community builders, passionate problem solvers, storytellers, coffee snobs (tea drinkers, too!), curious by nature, and culturally diverse.

What are we obsessed with? Our users. Solving complex problems and maximizing flow. Learning constantly. Building the next great storytelling product. Finding the greatest stories ever told. Dogs (and cats), coffee, and good snacks.

How do we work? Autonomously, collaboratively, respectfully. Balancing with work, family, and play...and all while having a great time.

Culture and Diversity 🤝

Wattpad is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate. Period.

Wattpad welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. We have taken a leadership position on creating a culture and an organization that truly values diversity. We are committed to fostering a global team that reflects the diversity of the Wattpad community. At Wattpad, we believe cultural fit doesn't mean culturally identical, and diversity of thought helps us to challenge one another to think big and think differently. We consider employment applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, disability status, or any other protected status.

If you have any special needs or accessibility requirements, please let us know. We will do our utmost to accommodate, in accordance with applicable local legislation.

Don't Meet All the Requirements? 🤔

Studies show women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs if they do not meet all the qualifications. Therefore, in an effort to build a more diverse workplace, we encourage you to apply anyways. You might actually be the right person or you may be a good fit for a number of other openings we currently have.