Senior Python Engineer, ManyChat
Brands
Chatbot marketing
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Chatbot marketing
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help businesses grow by building meaningful relationships with their customers.
Role
Who you are
- You've built backend systems at real scale before — you know what breaks under load and how to design around it early
- You make the call on a fuzzy problem, defend it, and adjust as you go, with an entrepreneurial streak that thrives on building something from scratch
- You want a direct line to the people using what you build and you judge your work the way they do: by whether it actually moves the metric
- 8+ years building backend systems in Python
- Deep FastAPI experience (or a similar modern framework) — designing services and data models, not just endpoints
- Experience designing systems and defending the trade-offs: boundaries, what to build now vs later, where it'll hurt
- Experience building for real load — knowing what breaks at scale and how to avoid it
- Comfort operating before a clear spec exists, helping shape the product as it comes together
- A track record of working directly with product and partners, making your own calls, and tracking whether what you ship moves the metric
- Experience building something from scratch — or the itch to finally do it
What the job involves
- Build Manychat for Brands from the ground up — the product brands use to run campaigns with creators: inviting them, handling consent, connecting their automations and data. Small codebase, early days
- Ship to real design partners in your first weeks. You're in the partner channels, you see it break, you fix it — no layers between you and the user
- Own problems that aren't solved yet: observability from zero, migrating off fragile infra, cutting PHP dependencies, auth and permissions, scaling data pulls that are already slow
- Decide how things get built. The team's small, so you set the patterns the next engineers inherit
- Shape what gets built with PMs and leadership — the product's still taking shape, so your calls move the product itself, and the code
- Build on Manychat's production infrastructure, serving millions of users — real scale from day one
- Judge your work by whether it lands for brands and creators — watch the metrics as closely as the code
Our take
Over 80% of businesses currently use chatbots to provide a variety of automated services to customers. However, chatbots are generally uniform and provide standardised responses, unless the business staffs a chatbot programmer.
ManyChat provides a platform for the creation of customised chatbots without needing any experience in coding. The startup focuses on providing small businesses with opportunities to equip the messaging services of their business social media pages with automated customer service tools.
The company has grown a huge customer base of over a million businesses, powering more than a billion conversations annually. Although there is competition in this field, ManyChat has the funding and reputation to hold its footing. In 2026, it announced it had worked alongside TikTok to bring its messaging automation tech to the platform, opening up a whole new channel for its users.
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Insights
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$140m
SERIES B
Apr 2019
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $163.2m
Company benefits
- An opportunity for rapid personal and professional growth
- Uncapped Commission + Equity
- Generous time off policy to balance your work and life, including paid parental leave
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Annual wellness reimbursement
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun-loving office culture
- We pay for relevant conference tickets, training programs, courses, and any necessary literature
Company HQ
Old Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Mikael Yang
(CEO & Founder)Studied at State University before founding ManyChat in July 2015. Has been CEO ever since.
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