Senior Backend Engineer, Acquisition

4 weeks ago

Phoenix, United States Post Script Full time

** We are not open to working with external agencies on this role and are only considering candidates based in North America**

As a

Senior Backend Engineer

for the

Acquisition and App Experience

Team at Postscript, you will use your passion and expertise for software engineering to create powerful, differentiated acquisition tools that enable brands to grow their subscriber list on and off-site. You will be given the autonomy to grow to your full potential, and your contributions will directly impact our customers and Postscript’s bottom line.

Senior Backend Engineers at Postscript have a high impact on their teams and on the wider engineering org through critical leadership, mentorship, and decision-making. As a Senior engineer you will guide your team in weighing technical constraints and business priorities to make the necessary trade-offs to deliver customer value. Our backend stack is currently Python, within a mostly monolithic, AWS-managed architecture, which is in various stages of refactoring to accommodate our increasing scalability/complexity challenges.

As a Senior Engineer on the

Acquisition and App Experience

team you will be expected to lead the charge in addressing architectural tradeoffs as we work to build best in class popups, and improve and proliferate our existing list growth channels. Our SDK additionally leverages Lit Web Components and TypeScript, a mix of Cloudflare and AWS-managed architecture, and Shopify App Extensions. Our SDK sees several

billion

requests a month to over 150 million unique users, and our API handles millions of requests daily.

Your passion for building great products, especially in early-stage companies, will lead you to have a meaningful and positive impact on both the product and the company. In addition, you will have the opportunity to help expand the engineering team and build out architecture and processes as we scale.

This position is fully remote.

Primary Duties

Research, design, and deploy new technical solutions for a variety of ground-breaking projects

Guide your team to make optimal technical and product design decisions, help develop a technical roadmap that supports our product vision

Architect, build, and maintain REST APIs for external and internal customers

Help architect and iterate on our growing list of acquisition tools, and identify opportunities and risks as we scale them

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

Mentor other engineers on best practices, standards, and learning opportunities

Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management

Requirements

A track record of founding/leading teams and complex projects through phases of ambiguity and challenge with great results

A proven career as a software engineer developing backend applications and APIs, hands-on expertise using Python (Flask and SQLAlchemy a plus). SaaS experience preferred, history of pragmatically adopting new architectures and languages to support teamwork and great engineering, product, and design outcomes.

Experience with relational databases, SQL, and experience with database modeling

Familiarity with building applications on AWS services

Experience building modular, flexible architectures (avoiding vendor lock-in, maximizing readability and extensibility)

History of pragmatically adopting new technology to support teamwork and great engineering, product, and design outcomes

Stellar verbal and written communication skills

Experience building great products (high growth, early stage tech preferred)

Experience coaching and mentoring engineers

What we’ll love about you

You’re curious and enthusiastic—you love building things

Energized by early stage companies and the opportunity to own and improve a new, fast-growing codebase

You can drive technical decisions and inform roadmaps by measuring trade offs informed by business priorities and technical needs/best practices

You have empathy for users and enjoy helping others

Strong attention to detail

Bonus : Remote work experience. You love working on a remote-first team

What You’ll Love About Us

Salary range of

USD $170,000 to $200,000 base plus significant equity regardless of location

High growth startup – plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career

Remote-first team – work from anywhere

Fun – We’re passionate and enjoy what we do

Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity

Flexible paid time off

Health, dental, vision insurance

Other great perks

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