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Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Commerce Platform

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1 year ago

Base Salary

$212k - $292k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable backend systems for payments, pricing, and invoicing using Python and FastAPI.
  • Lead cross-functional technical efforts with product managers, designers, engineers, and adjacent teams.
  • Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs with product, infrastructure, and development teams.
  • Drive testing, monitoring, observability, performance optimization, and engineering quality.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to maintain the reliability of commerce systems.
  • Mentor engineers, influence engineering culture, and contribute to technical decision-making and roadmaps.

Requirements

  • 7–10+ years of professional backend software development experience.
  • Proficiency in Python, relational databases, and Django or FastAPI, with flexibility around programming language.
  • Hands-on experience with metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning using tools such as Datadog.
  • Experience building and maintaining high-scale, high-traffic backend systems, ideally in commerce, fintech, or healthcare.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, including data consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to lead cross-functional technical projects.
  • Strong focus on quality and risk, including preventing double charges, misbilling, and inconsistent payment states.
  • Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries is a bonus.
  • Deep familiarity with decomposing monolithic systems into well-defined domains is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance plus OneMedical membership.
  • Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Flexible paid time off, wellbeing reimbursements, and learning and growth reimbursements.
  • Paid parental leave and fertility benefits.
  • Pet insurance and student loan refinancing.
  • Virtual resources for mindfulness, counseling, and fitness.
  • Competitive equity and benefits package in addition to the stated base salary.

Tech Stack

DatadogDjangoFastAPIPython

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