Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Anomalo as a Senior Backend Software Engineer and play a vital role in building and maintaining our distributed backend systems. You will define, shape, and ship backend development for innovative product features, evolve our systems for scale and reliability, and collaborate with various teams to understand customer needs. This role requires 10+ years of software development experience, expertise in Python and Django/Celery, deep SQL proficiency, and experience with highly-available distributed systems. You will own backend development, interact with end-users, architect systems, maintain the Django/Celery platform, and define the data model. Anomalo offers a competitive salary, unlimited time off, comprehensive benefits, quarterly offsites, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development or equivalent experience
• Expert in Python, Django / Celery experience is highly preferred
• Deep proficiency in SQL and experience writing performant queries with an understanding of internal query planners
• Experience architecting highly-available distributed systems, including production-grade ML workloads
• Willingness and ability to flex up and down our stack as circumstances require
• Ability to effectively communicate both internally with peers and externally with our customers
• Passion for a values-driven organization
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Own backend development of new product features alongside product and design
• Interact with end-users to deeply understand their needs and build the right solution
• Architect systems that can be deployed and maintained at an enterprise scale
• Maintain Anomalo’s Django/ Celery-powered backend platform ensuring stability, performance, scale, and maintainability
• Define the data model across our backend data sources
• Champion the adoption of best practices across the team and throughout the organization

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working for a high-growth start-up preferred

Benefits

• Unlimited time off
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision
• Fertility and family planning coverage
• Mental health and wellness coverage
• Quarterly offsites in exciting destinations to spend time with your colleagues
• A best in class benefits package including
• $1,000 stipend to ensure your remote office is comfortable
• 17 company holidays and unlimited vacation time
• Company-wide winter break the last week of the year
• Comprehensive family-friendly medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Anomalo covers 90% of your premiums
• Access to family planning and reproductive care for our employees and their families by partnering with Carrot Fertility
• Mental health and wellness benefits for all employees, covered at 100%
• 16 weeks of parental leave, during which you will receive your full pay
• Meaningful equity package
• Life insurance
• 401(k) plan