Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer you will use your expertise and passion for building scalable and extensible distributed systems to help enhance our core platform and message orchestration platform, enabling our customers to engage their subscribers through conversational messaging. As a technical leader you will set the bar for the maintainability and performance of our systems. You will be given the autonomy to solve difficult technical problems, to grow professionally, and your work will directly impact our customers and Postscript’s bottom line.

Engineers at Postscript have a high impact on their team and on the wider engineering org through project leadership, technical expertise, and decision-making. As a Senior Engineer you will guide your team in weighing technical constraints and business priorities to make the necessary trade-offs to deliver customer value. Our stack is currently React, Python (Flask), Go, AWS-managed architecture.

Your passion for building great products, especially in early-stage companies, will lead you to have a significant impact on both our customers and business. In addition, you will have the opportunity to solve challenging problems and build out architecture and processes as we scale. 

This position is fully remote, and Postscript has been a fully remote company since day 1

Primary duties

• Architect and build highly available, extensible, and scalable platform primitives and REST APIs for external and internal customers

• Take ownership and be creative with your solutions as you help deliver excellent products to our customers

• Contribute to the health of the team through honest and direct feedback as we iterate and improve on our processes

• Guide your team to make optimal technical and product design decisions

• Identify and execute on points of scale in order to maximize throughput and efficiency

• Mentor other engineers on best practices and growth opportunities

• Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years professional software development experience

• A proven career as a software engineer developing backend applications, services and APIs, hands-on experience using Python, Golang or similar. 

• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining applications on AWS

• Expertise in NoSQL and SQL, and experience with database modeling (MongoDB, Postgres)

• Experience building modular, flexible architectures (maximizing readability and extensibility)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience building great products (high growth, early stage tech preferred)

• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers

What We’ll Love About You

• Experience establishing best practices in development processes 

• Experience with or exposure to migration off a monolithic architecture a plus

• Passion for early stage companies and the opportunity to be responsible for owning and improving a new, fast-growing code base

• Great communicator and love helping others 

• Experience establishing best practices in development processes 

• Empathy for users 

• Strong attention to detail

• Fearless in your pursuit of excellent results

• Remote work experience is a plus 

What You'll Love About Us

• Salary range of USD $170,000-$200,000 base plus significant equity (we do not have geo based salaries) 

• High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!

• Work from home (or wherever)

• Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do

• Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity

• Flexible paid time off

• Health, dental, vision insurance