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Senior Backend Engineer

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 11-50Since 2016Company SiteLinkedIn

Location

California

Posted

17 days ago

Salary

$123.7K - $254.7K / year

Bachelor DegreeEnglishAWSDjangoMy SQLPythonRedis

Job Description

• 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.

Job Requirements

  • 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.
  • Nice-to-Haves: 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

  • Equity opportunities

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