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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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💎 Seniority level: Senior, Minimum 6 years professional software development experience

📍 Location: North America

💸 Salary: 170000.0 - 200000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Ecommerce and SMS marketing

🏢 Company: Postscript👥 251-500💰 $65,000,000 Series C over 2 years ago🫂 Last layoff over 2 years agoSales AutomationAdvertisingE-CommerceSMSEnterprise

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: Minimum 6 years professional software development experience

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.
Responsibilities:
  • 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.
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