Senior Backend Engineer, Postscript
Flow Builder
$170-200k
Plus equity; Salary is benchmarked on US rates only and may vary by other locations
SMS marketing platform for eCommerce companies
Open for applications
SMS marketing platform for eCommerce companies
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$170-200k
Plus equity; Salary is benchmarked on US rates only and may vary by other locations
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make SMS the #1 Revenue Channel for Merchants.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a motivated software engineer with an interest in building scalable and extensible products to join our growing team
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Empathy for users
- Strong attention to detail
- Fearless in your pursuit of excellent results
- Remote work experience is a plus
What the job involves
- 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
- In addition, you will have the opportunity to solve challenging problems and build out architecture and processes as we scale
- 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
Our take
SMS marketing can be an extremely effective tool for eCommerce businesses, but it can often be invasive and irritating to consumers. Postscript solves this problem by offering personalized and optimized SMS advertising.
SMS marketing is nothing new, but Postscript has set itself apart by maintaining a laser-sharp focus on Shopify stores. As a result, the company has tapped into a previously underserved market that has seen rapid, continuous growth in recent years.
As eCommerce sales via SMS continue to rise in the US, Postscript is well-positioned to lead the market, helping more merchants develop personalized, effective communication strategies that drive customer loyalty and revenue.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$65m
SERIES C
Mar 2021
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $104.7m
Company benefits
- Work from home (or anywhere!)
- Full team off-sites in cool places
- Growth is encouraged, with lots of direct feedback
- We have fun and celebrate wins
- Culture of transparency and trust
- Flexible vacation
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Equity grants
- And more..
Company values
- Fearless: Never operate from a place of fear. Making mistakes is fine. It is how we learn and grow from our mistakes where the magic really happens
- Excellence: Striving to be the #1 Team in Ecommerce, we are always pushing for the most Excellent results
- Animal: We move with urgency and default to action. We are relentless when diving into the unknown and we celebrate our teammates when they attack a problem
- Customer-first: We are obsessed with providing our customers with value. To be the #1 Team in Ecommerce, we have to care about our customers on another level
- Humility: No room for jerks and ego. We have a team- first mindset and actively embrace change. Continuous feedback is part of working toward excellence
Company HQ
South Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ
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Leadership
Adam Turner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked in Business Intelligence at Bitium. They also co-founded Wilbits where they worked in Product and Engineering, as well at serving as a Product Manager at StackCommerce before co-founding Postscript.
Colin Turner
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously co-founded Wiblits. They also worked at Verimatrix for over 5 years in multiple roles, including Project Manager.
Alex Beller
(Co-Founder)Previously the Director of Business Development at StockCommerce.
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