Remote Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Backend/Python Job in United States Close

Who you are

• Senior/Staff level candidates should have 5+ years experience building modern back-end systems
• Python experience is preferred but experience in other languages is acceptable if you have a desire to work with Python
• You have hands-on production experience working with MongoDB PostgreSQL Elasticsearch or similar data stores
• You have experience designing scaling debugging and optimizing systems to make them fast and reliable
• You have participated in code reviews and provided overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase
• You care about the craftsmanship of the code and systems you produce
• Located in the USA
• Mid-level candidates should have ~3 years of similar experience and be eager to level up with the right opportunity

Desirables

• Contributed open source code
• Led small project teams
• Built B2B SaaS products
• Worked with complex architectures
• Worked with APIs
• Experience with async task frameworks

What the job involves

• Conceiving designing building and launching new user-facing features
• Improving the performance and scalability of our GraphQL and REST API
• Improving how we sync millions of sales emails and calendar events each month
• Working with Twilio's API WebSockets and WebRTC to improve our calling features
• Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data
• Improving our Elastic search-backed powerful search features
• Improving our internal messaging infrastructure using streaming technologies like Kafka and Redis
• Building new and enhancing existing integrations with other SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite Zapier and Web Conferencing providers