Senior Backend Engineer - Acquisition and App Experience
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As a Senior Backend Engineer for the Acquisition and App Experience Team at Postscript, you will use your passion and expertise for software engineering to create powerful, differentiated acquisition tools that enable brands to grow their subscriber list on and off-site. Your work will contribute directly to the growth of our customers’ subscriber lists and the collection of valuable subscriber data, to help make SMS their #1 revenue channel. You will be given the autonomy to grow to your full potential, and your contributions 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, Python (Flask), within a mostly monolithic, AWS-managed architecture.
On the Acquisition and App Experience team our SDK additionally leverages Lit Web Components and TypeScript, a mix of Cloudflare and AWS-managed architecture, and Shopify App Extensions. Our SDK sees several billion requests a month to over 150 million unique users, and our API handles millions of requests daily.
Your passion for building great products, especially in early-stage companies, will lead you to have a meaningful and positive impact on both the product and the company. In addition, you will have the opportunity to help expand the engineering team and build out architecture and processes as we scale.. This position is fully remote.
Primary duties
Research, design, and deploy new technical solutions for a variety of ground-breaking projects
Architect, build, and maintain highly available, extensible, and scalable REST APIs for external and internal customers
Help architect and iterate on our growing list of acquisition tools
Collaborate closely on a cross-functional team to deliver a world-class product
Take ownership and get creative with your solutions, dive into bold ideas in order to achieve outstanding results
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
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 track record of leading teams and projects through phases of ambiguity and challenge with great results—SaaS experience preferred
A proven career as a software engineer building large scale backend applications and APIs, hands-on experience using Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, compiled language experience a plus).
Experience with relational databases, SQL, and experience with database modeling
Familiarity with building applications on AWS services and maintaining high observability of the applications
Experience building modular, flexible architectures (maximizing readability and extensibility)
Stellar 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
You’re curious and enthusiastic—you love building things
Energized by early stage companies and the opportunity to own and improve a new, fast-growing codebase
You can drive technical decisions by measuring trade offs informed by both business priorities and technical needs
You have empathy for users and enjoy helping others
Bonus: Remote work experience. You love working on a remote-first team
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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About the job
Senior Backend Engineer - Acquisition and App Experience
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs
As a Senior Backend Engineer for the Acquisition and App Experience Team at Postscript, you will use your passion and expertise for software engineering to create powerful, differentiated acquisition tools that enable brands to grow their subscriber list on and off-site. Your work will contribute directly to the growth of our customers’ subscriber lists and the collection of valuable subscriber data, to help make SMS their #1 revenue channel. You will be given the autonomy to grow to your full potential, and your contributions 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, Python (Flask), within a mostly monolithic, AWS-managed architecture.
On the Acquisition and App Experience team our SDK additionally leverages Lit Web Components and TypeScript, a mix of Cloudflare and AWS-managed architecture, and Shopify App Extensions. Our SDK sees several billion requests a month to over 150 million unique users, and our API handles millions of requests daily.
Your passion for building great products, especially in early-stage companies, will lead you to have a meaningful and positive impact on both the product and the company. In addition, you will have the opportunity to help expand the engineering team and build out architecture and processes as we scale.. This position is fully remote.
Primary duties
Research, design, and deploy new technical solutions for a variety of ground-breaking projects
Architect, build, and maintain highly available, extensible, and scalable REST APIs for external and internal customers
Help architect and iterate on our growing list of acquisition tools
Collaborate closely on a cross-functional team to deliver a world-class product
Take ownership and get creative with your solutions, dive into bold ideas in order to achieve outstanding results
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
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 track record of leading teams and projects through phases of ambiguity and challenge with great results—SaaS experience preferred
A proven career as a software engineer building large scale backend applications and APIs, hands-on experience using Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, compiled language experience a plus).
Experience with relational databases, SQL, and experience with database modeling
Familiarity with building applications on AWS services and maintaining high observability of the applications
Experience building modular, flexible architectures (maximizing readability and extensibility)
Stellar 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
You’re curious and enthusiastic—you love building things
Energized by early stage companies and the opportunity to own and improve a new, fast-growing codebase
You can drive technical decisions by measuring trade offs informed by both business priorities and technical needs
You have empathy for users and enjoy helping others
Bonus: Remote work experience. You love working on a remote-first team
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
For information about how we use your personal data, please see our U.S. Job Applicant Privacy Notice