Senior Backend Engineer, Postscript

• A track record of leading teams and projects through phases of ambiguity and challenge with great results
• A proven career as a software engineer developing backend applications and APIs, hands-on expertise using Python (Flask and SQLAlchemy a plus). SaaS experience preferred, history of working with compiled languages such as Go, Rust, or Java
• Familiarity with building applications on AWS services
• Experience with relational databases, SQL, and experience with database modeling (PostgreSQL a plus), NoSQL
• Experience building modular, flexible architectures (avoiding vendor lock-in, maximizing readability and extensibility)
• Some interest and/or experience in UI frameworks such as React
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in high growth, early stage tech preferred
• Experience coaching, mentoring and onboarding engineers

Desirable

• As a Senior Backend Engineer for the Messaging Platform team at Postscript, you will bring your passion for maximizing scalability to the task of creating modular, maintainable, and observable code for the core of our business
• Your work will directly contribute to building the fastest, most reliable, and functionally rich messaging platform for ecommerce on the market
• 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
• As a senior engineer you will help lead your team in weighing technical constraints and business priorities to make the necessary trade-offs to deliver customer value
• The Messaging Platform Senior Engineer will be expected to lead the charge in helping to break up the monolith and address scalability, and will bring a wide range of experiences and skills, as well as the courage to try something new, to the role
• Research, design, and deploy new technical solutions for a variety of ground-breaking projects
• Architect, build, and maintain REST APIs for external and internal customers
• Identify bottlenecks and points of scale and implement solutions that improve throughput and efficiency in our core messaging architecture
• Work closely with product and design and other engineers on your team to deliver a high quality, 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 SDLC processes and procedures
• Lead group sessions and participate in the product to engineering project lifecycle to actively ensure your team is guided by product-focused architecture and implementation to achieve our goals
• Guide your team to make optimal technical and product design decisions
• Mentor other engineers on best practices, standards, and learning opportunities
• Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management