.**Staff Software Engineer (Backend)**:Drift is the Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue and increase customer lifetime value, faster. More than 50,000 businesses use Drift to align sales and marketing on a single platform to deliver a unified customer experience where people are free to have a conversation with a business at any time, on their terms. Our mission is to use conversations to make business buying frictionless, more enjoyable, and more human.Continually recognized as a leader for innovation and growth, Drift is expanding our R&D teams and opening a Center of Excellence in Guadalajara, Mexico. Thanks to a recent investment from Vista Equity Partners, Drift is currently the fourth largest enterprise software company globally. Our rapid growth, under the leadership and guidance of our LatinX founders, has created a fast, exciting workplace where curious and determined people solve real business problems to help customers every day.**About Digital First**Drift is a Digital First company, which means Remote is the primary experience for all employees. For the majority of our positions, your location is flexible! If "Remote" is stated in the job location, that role can be located anywhere Drift is authorized to do business in the United States.Select roles may require you to be located in a city where we have a Conversation Space (currently Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA, Tampa, FL, and London, UK - with more to come across the globe), or work hours associated with a specific time zone. If this is the case, it will be explicitly stated in the job description. Please work with your recruiter and hiring manager to learn more about where Drift is authorized in the U.S. and to determine if you are eligible for employment based on your location.**About the role**We are looking for Staff Engineers who are passionate and ready to tackle some of the most meaningful problems in the industry—from building adaptive AI for bot-supported conversations, to designing next generation chat experiences, to bridging the gap between old and new ways to buy.You may be involved in creating infrastructure that processes billions of messages a minute to extracting buyer intent and priority for conversations. You could also build tools to trace and visualize any message ever sent so our customers can zero in on giving the best buying experience.**Drift Tech Stack **_These are not hard requirements_- Java- AWS- Docker/Kubernetes- DynamoDB**Meet some of our leaders!**Whether you're an intern or a principal, you will get to work on hard problems together. We want you to bring out your unique experience and specialities.- **Melissa Leffler**,** SVP of Engineering, joined January 2019. Melissa is building one of the best engineering teams in the business to take Drift's products to the next level