Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Summary

Join Postscript as a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack and leverage your expertise in building scalable distributed systems to enhance our core platform. As a technical leader, you will set the standard for system maintainability and performance, tackling challenging problems and directly impacting our customers and bottom line. You will guide your team in balancing technical constraints with business priorities, contributing to project leadership and decision-making. This fully remote position offers significant impact in a high-growth, early-stage company, with opportunities for professional growth and development. The role is highly preferred for ET/CT time zones. Postscript has been a fully remote company since its inception.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years professional software development experience
• A proven career as a software engineer developing backend applications, services and APIs, hands-on experience using Typescript/Node.js or similar
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining applications on AWS
• Expertise in NoSQL and SQL, and experience with database modeling (MongoDB, Postgres)
• Experience building modular, flexible architectures (maximizing readability and extensibility)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience building great products (high growth, early stage tech preferred)
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers

Responsibilities

• Architect and build highly available, extensible, and scalable platform primitives and REST APIs for external and internal customers
• Take ownership and be creative with your solutions as you help deliver excellent products to our customers
• 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
• Identify and execute on points of scale in order to maximize throughput and efficiency
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience establishing best practices in development processes
• Experience with or exposure to migration off a monolithic architecture a plus
• Passion for early stage companies and the opportunity to be responsible for owning and improving a new, fast-growing code base
• Great communicator and love helping others
• Experience establishing best practices in development processes
• Empathy for users
• Strong attention to detail
• Fearless in your pursuit of excellent results
• Remote work experience is a plus

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