Remote Staff Backend Engineer, Messaging Platform

Postscript is redefining marketing for ecommerce companies. By introducing SMS as an entirely new channel for ecommerce stores to engage, retain, and convert their customer base, brands are seeing huge ROI with Postscript. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator and other top investors, Postscript is growing fast and looking for remarkable people to help build a world class organization. To learn more about postscript, checkout this article from one of our investors, Greylock, on our vision for the Future of Marketing.

The Messaging Platform team is responsible for designing, developing, and supporting the inbound and outbound messaging conduits at Postscript. We are currently in the process of replatforming our outbound messaging services and are looking for a motivated software engineer with an interest in designing systems at scale in a microservices environment to join our growing team. The end result will be participating in the development of what will ultimately be the most performant and feature-rich messaging platform in the industry.

This is a fully remote position.

Primary duties

Our future Staff Backend Engineer will design and implement microservices in Go, backed by MongoDB and other NoSQL datastores in an AWS environment. Experience with modern SDLC including Agile methodologies is helpful, as well as a penchant for building systems that scale and are flexible enough to accommodate an ever-evolving business strategy.

What We’ll Love About You

• Minimum 8+ years professional software development experience, at least 5 years of which is in Go
• Experience leading projects and delivering end to end on a backend solution successfully
• AWS experience a plus
• Experience with NoSQL databases a plus
• Experience working in fast-paced development environments
• Experience working in low latency, high throughput applications
• Good communication skills and a team player
• Willingness to learn new technologies and a flexible mindset

What You’ll Love About Us

• Salary range of USD $200,000-230,000 base plus significant equity (we do not have geo based salaries)
• High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!
• Work from home (or wherever)
• Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, vision insurance

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