Senior Backend Engineer - App Systems
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PostscriptE-commerce
US or CanadaFull-TimeSenior
Salary172,000 - 203,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonSQLJavaKubernetesTypeScriptGoRESTful APIsDatadog
Requirements
- 4+ years experience building large-scale backend systems and APIs
- Typescript experience (Go preferred; Python, Java also valued)
- Experienced with autoscaling strategies for applications deployed on Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
- Comfortable using agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI-first development tooling
- Experience with both 0-to-1 initiatives and complex existing systems
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- SQL experience
- Thoughtful database modeling
- Familiarity with building and observing applications on AWS
- Ideally familiar with Datadog
- Strong communication skills
- Energized by distributed systems challenges and high-ownership environments
- Strong instincts for technical trade-offs
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the Fondue product and its underlying architecture
- Independently investigate, design, and execute solutions across evolving distributed systems with a high degree of ambiguity
- Drive system decoupling and modularization
- Implement AI-first coding practices and tooling
- Help Fondue and other subsidiary products adopt Postscript's core tools, data formats, and technical standards
- Architect, build, and maintain highly available, scalable REST APIs for internal and external use
- Collaborate cross-functionally with finance and customer support teams
- Contribute to process and technical improvements
- Identify and eliminate single points of failure
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