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Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer with expertise in Python, you will collaborate with a small team of remote engineers to enhance our flagship customer-facing product. You should possess a deep understanding of fundamental engineering principles and have practical experience in web development, automated testing, version control, continuous deployment, infrastructure management, and agile planning.

• Own and deliver key product features from design through deployment, working closely with design, product, and other stakeholders.
• Mentor and support engineers, offering guidance and helping to reinforce high engineering standards across the team.
• Collaborate closely with design, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a user-friendly and engaging product for our customers.
• Ship high-performing and resilient APIs that adhere to industry standards and are delightful to use.
• Step into a technical lead role on projects as needed, coordinating across functions and guiding execution without formal authority.
• Maintain a high standard of quality across our codebase by advocating for cleanliness, readability, speed, testability, and documentation.
• Champion software quality, emphasizing readability, reliability, testability, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Experience working with Python backends (ideally Django).
• Exceptional remote communication skills, especially in writing.
• The ability to work autonomously in a startup environment; you thrive under pressure and are comfortable adapting to rapidly evolving plans.
• Proven production experience working with a relational database (we use MySQL). Bonus points for experience working with other types of datastores or backing services.
• A rigorous approach to software quality. You like to write tests.
• A knack for learning new technologies, strong problem-solving skills, and an openness to creative solutions.
• A genuine passion for crafting reliable web applications. You get it right the first time.
• Computer Science degree or equivalent.

Requirements

• Adtech Experience.
• Specific Domain Experience in CTV.
• Familiarity with AWS services, experience working in a microservice architecture or with containerization technologies.
• Previous involvement in a production environment with a customer-facing reporting and analytics system.
• Experience working with other types of datastores or backing services, like Redis.

Benefits

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
• Base salary range for this position: $123,696 — $254,667 USD.
• Eligible for equity.