Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Salsify, a leading commerce infrastructure company, and become a Senior Software Engineer on the Connections team. You will build and maintain back-end services and APIs using technologies like Python, Ruby, and Go, working on a platform used by major brands. This role involves solving complex scalability problems, defining product direction, collaborating with various teams, and mentoring junior engineers. Salsify offers a competitive salary, equity, unlimited vacation, comprehensive health insurance, and other benefits. The company values a collaborative and inclusive work environment, emphasizing clarity, competence, and autonomy.

Requirements

• 5+ years of commercial software development experience
• Experience in Python
• Experience building consumer facing applications in a SaaS or product-based company, specializing in back-end development
• Experience with contemporary frameworks, build tools, and testing tools

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production-grade software using some or all of the following technologies: Python, Go, Ruby
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
• Azure Cloud, AWS
• Kubernetes
• Set technical direction and help define the technical approach for the work the team takes on
• Work closely with product and engineering management to help define the product roadmap
• Collaborate with go-to-market teams to launch new functionality
• Grow as a leader both on the team and within the broader engineering organization
• Mentor new team members as the team grows
• Participate in tech talks and guilds to exchange ideas and strategies that advance our ability to build quality software
• Be proud of what you work on, learn from and give back to your team and the broader Salsify community - contribute to the success of an exciting and fast growing Boston-based company with global customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Go and/or Ruby
• A drive to build scalable and performant applications -- you know that just because a query returns the results you need, it may not be the most efficient approach
• An interest in exchanging ideas around building robust, secure, maintainable software
• Comfort providing and receiving feedback on implementation ideas
• Thoughtful opinions about efficient and secure deployment practices

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Equity
• Unlimited Vacation
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Multicare)
• Life Plan
• Meal Allowance
• Referral Bonuses