3 days ago
Base Salary
$189k - $256k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver well-scoped backend projects from technical design through implementation, testing, launch, monitoring, and iteration.
- Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable services, APIs, and data models for user-facing product features.
- Partner with frontend engineers, product managers, designers, and data partners to define requirements, API contracts, and complete product experiences.
- Make technical tradeoffs involving product needs, delivery timelines, performance, reliability, scalability, and long-term system health.
- Improve existing backend systems and debug production issues while supporting their ongoing operation.
- Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews, sharing knowledge with teammates.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent demonstrated experience, including independently delivering backend projects for user-facing products.
- Proficiency in Python or a comparable backend language, with experience building and maintaining services and APIs.
- Experience with SQL, relational databases, and data modeling.
- Experience testing, debugging, monitoring, and supporting backend systems in production.
- Ability to design backend components and make tradeoffs concerning reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including risk identification, navigating changing requirements, and connecting technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package including salary, equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays, recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and a 401k plan with matching.
- Hybrid work model based in San Francisco requiring three days per week in the office.
- Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations available during the interview process.
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