Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Saturn Technologies as a Senior Software Engineer, Backend and be part of a community-focused calendar application impacting tens of thousands of users daily. We've secured significant funding and are looking for a leader to contribute to our growth. You will work on a cross-functional team, collaborate with product and design teams, and lead the development of major features. This role requires extensive backend development experience, strong leadership skills, and expertise in relational and NoSQL databases. The position offers a competitive salary, full benefits, and stock options.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant backend development experience
• A strong understanding of best practices for modern web apps, APIs, and microservices
• Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to mentor team-mates
• Experience working with and scaling relational databases such as Postgres or experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB
• Experience with concurrency theories and implementations

Responsibilities

• Work on a cross-functional team, utilizing your extensive knowledge and experience in building complex applications
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers from the beginning of projects to create user-friendly experiences
• Communicate and manage relationships with client engineers on iOS and Web to ensure seamless integration
• Promote a disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team setting
• Lead the development and ownership of large user-facing features/epics, from design to implementation and launch
• Guide the app architecture to align with industry best practices and engineering excellence
• Play a crucial role in elevating the team's technical skills and efficiency
• Be hands-on, write automated tests, and provide thorough feedback in code reviews - no task is too small

Preferred Qualifications

• Python web development experience is a plus (FastAPI, Flask, Django, etc)
• Experience scaling high-growth systems and diagnosing performance bottlenecks
• Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, ElastiCache)
• Experience working with and scaling multi-container Docker in production environments
• Experience working with background jobs (Celery with Redis, etc)
• Experience working with real-time communication (websockets preferred)

Benefits

• This position has an estimated annual salary range of $165,000 to $210,000, not including bonus, commission, and equity
• This position also comes with full benefits and stock options