What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Backend Engineer position at Postscript?
As a Senior Backend Product Engineer at Postscript, you will utilize your strong product engineering skills to develop and manage our backend applications and systems. Our backend stack is a Python (Flask) API with a PostgreSQL database hosted on AWS. Senior Backend Engineers at Postscript are key members of the team that directly impact the team as an individual contributor and also through critical leadership, mentorship, and decision-making activities. As a Senior engineer you will guide your team in weighing trade-offs of technical constraints and business priorities to consistently deliver customer value.
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. All positions at Postscript are fully remote.
Primary Duties
- Architect, build and maintain REST APIs to build features in our product suite
- Work closely with product, design, and other engineers on your team to deliver a high quality, world-class product
- Take ownership and get creative with your solutions
- Improve our internal development processes to minimize errors and improve team efficiency
- Lead group sessions to actively ensure your team is guided by product-focused architecture and implementation to achieve our goals
- Understand how to weigh trade-offs of customer value, technical constraints, and business priorities
- Guide your team to make optimal technical and product design decisions to get work done
- Mentor other engineers on best practices, standards, and learning opportunities
- Accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management
Requirements
- A proven career as a software engineer developing backend applications and APIs
- Hands-on experience using Python preferred (Flask and SQLAlchemy a plus)
- Familiarity with building applications on AWS services (Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, and others)
- Expert-level skills in relational databases, SQL, and experience with database modeling (PostgreSQL a plus)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, translating complex technical requirements into easy to follow direction and documentation
- Experience coaching, mentoring and onboarding engineers
- Experience in high growth, early stage tech preferred
- SaaS experience preferred
