Senior Backend Software Engineer, Saturn
$165-210k
Calendar-based social platform
Open for applications
Calendar-based social platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$165-210k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build community around the calendar.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant backend development experience
- A strong understanding of best practices for modern web apps, APIs, and microservices
- Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to mentor team-mates
- Experience working with and scaling relational databases such as Postgres or experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB
Desirable
- Python web development experience is a plus (FastAPI, Flask, Django, etc)
- Experience scaling high-growth systems and diagnosing performance bottlenecks
- Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, ElastiCache)
- Experience working with and scaling multi-container Docker in production environments
- Experience working with background jobs (Celery with Redis, etc)
- Experience working with real-time communication (websockets preferred)
What the job involves
- Working on a cross-functional team, utilizing your extensive knowledge and experience in building complex applications
- Collaborating with Product Managers and Designers from the beginning of projects to create user-friendly experiences
- Communicating and managing relationships with client engineers on iOS and Web to ensure seamless integration
- Promoting a disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team setting
- Leading the development and ownership of large user-facing features/epics, from design to implementation and launch
- Guiding the app architecture to align with industry best practices and engineering excellence
- Playing a crucial role in elevating the team's technical skills and efficiency
- Being hands-on, writing automated tests, and providing thorough feedback in code reviews - no task is too small
Our take
Saturn is shaking up the social media landscape with a unique, calendar-based app designed for high schoolers to track their schedules, interact with classmates, and access key information. By combining messaging and social features with a specialized calendar tailored to hectic school routines, Saturn has experienced rapid growth and is now active in over 17,0000 schools across the US.
The app's focus on helping students stay organized and connected has resonated strongly, with features that support rotation calendars, block schedules, and even lunch waves. Plus, Saturn's functionality extends to clubs, teams, and student councils, making it a valuable tool for managing group activities.
Looking ahead, Saturn is expanding its reach to college students, allowing users to take their calendars with them after high school and making the app a seamless part of their academic experience.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$44m
LATE VC
Apr 2019
$9m
SEED
Total funding: $53m
Company values
- Honor the value of time
- Focus on impact
- Saturn, saturnaians, me
- Make magic in the mundane
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
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Leadership
Dylan Diamond
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded Diamond Apps where they served as the CEO. They also worked as a Software Engineer at Tesla and as an iOS Engineer at Chegg.
Max Baron
(Co-Founder & COO/CSO)Previously founded PrepReps where they served as the CEO. They also worked as a Strategic Advisor to the CMO at Beats by Dr. Dre and T-Mobile and as a Managing Director at Havas.
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