Senior Backend Engineer, Acquisition and App Experience

Summary

Join Postscript as a Senior Backend Engineer to create powerful acquisition tools and contribute to the growth of our customers' subscriber lists.

Requirements

• A track record of leading teams and projects through phases of ambiguity and challenge with great results—SaaS experience preferred
• A proven career as a software engineer building large scale backend applications and APIs, hands-on experience using Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, compiled language experience a plus)
• Experience with relational databases, SQL, and experience with database modeling
• Familiarity with building applications on AWS services and maintaining high observability of the applications
• Experience building modular, flexible architectures (maximizing readability and extensibility)
• Stellar verbal and written communication skills
• Experience building great products (high growth, early stage tech preferred)
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and deploy new technical solutions for a variety of ground-breaking projects
• Architect, build, and maintain highly available, extensible, and scalable REST APIs for external and internal customers
• Help architect and iterate on our growing list of acquisition tools
• Collaborate closely on a cross-functional team to deliver a 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 processes
• Guide your team to make optimal technical and product design decisions
• Mentor other engineers on best practices and growth opportunities
• Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management

Benefits

• Salary range of USD $170,000-$200,000 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