Senior Backend Engineer
170k - 200k USD
Remote
Full Time
#Engineering
#SMS Marketing
#Ecommerce
#Golang
#Python
#AWS
#React
#Postgres
Trusted by more than 18,000 Shopify and Shopify Plus stores—like Brooklinen, Ruggable, True Classic and Dr. Squatch—Postscript gives ecommerce brands the tools they need to run a world-class SMS marketing program.
We’re on a mission to make SMS the number-one revenue channel for ecommerce merchants by delivering an easy-to-use platform where they can grow their subscriber list, develop and test their messaging strategy, deliver excellent customer service, and drive sales and loyalty—all in one place. We believe SMS is the most important marketing and sales channel of the decade, and that vision drives everything we do.
Postscript was founded in 2018 as a 100% remote organization. With more than 250 employees (and counting!), we’re backed by Greylock, Y Combinator, and other top investors.
The Flow Builder team is responsible for designing, developing, and supporting Postscript’s message orchestration platform. We are constantly improving on the current platform and adding new features that empower merchants to run their entire SMS business through Postscript. The Flow Builder product is experiencing fast growth and adoption leading to a number of new and exciting challenges to solve. We are looking for a motivated software engineer with an interest in building scalable and extensible products to join our growing team.
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Flow Builder team you will use your expertise and passion for building scalable and extensible distributed systems to help enhance our 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 grow to your full potential and your work will directly impact our customers and Postscript’s bottom line.
Senior Backend 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, Go, Python (Flask), within a mostly monolithic, 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.
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
- A proven career as a software engineer developing backend applications and APIs, hands-on experience using Golang and Python. SaaS experience preferred
- Experience with or exposure to migration off a monolithic architecture a plus
- Familiarity with building, deploying, and maintaining applications on AWS services using Terraform
- Expertise in NoSQL and SQL, and experience with database modeling (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
- Minimum 6-8 years professional software development experience
- Experience establishing best practices in development processes
- 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
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