Senior Backend Engineer

Kizen•Austin, TX

19h•$180,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Want to help create the future of work? We’re putting AI and intelligent automation to real use in the hands of real people. We are looking for a hands-on Senior Engineer with a history of focusing on user outcomes and rapidly delivering reliable, scalable systems as we bring our next-gen platform to the world. This is an opportunity of a lifetime for someone who wants to be at the heart of the AI movement to better humanity. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be working directly with our Director of Platform Engineering to build new user-facing features and enhancements, and to scale the core Kizen platform with our users’ growing needs. Our core values are the heart of Kizen’s DNA. They are baked into our culture, drive our decisions, and manifest in how we treat our customers, partners, and each other. We are: Customer Obsessed . We are fanatical about making our customers wildly successful. We adopt our customers’ missions as our own, and do not rest until they have made their mark on the world and achieved every last goal. Fiercely Kind. Kindness is a way of life, so we strive to be a force for good in all we do. We value all people, treating others with unwavering respect, compassion, and understanding. In the spirit of stewardship, we aim to leave things better than they were. Relentlessly Excellent. We build amazing teams and unleash their talents. We approach our work with a sense of urgency, always giving our best effort, then trying to do a little better. We operate with complete transparency, creating trust and resolving issues faster. Amazingly Fun. Doing the job of your dreams should be outrageously fun. We laugh a lot, and celebrate early and often. We embrace an attitude of optimism and genuinely enjoy collaborating.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or greater required in Computer Science (preferred), Information Technology, or related field (Physics, mathematics, engineering)
Ability to facilitate a task’s entire lifecycle, going from product requirements to deployment
7+ years of professional development experience (Python preferred)
2+ years developing on Django
2+ years of experience developing and/or managing enterprise-scale PostgreSQL implementations
2+ years of direct experience with database optimization techniques like indexing, clustering, and sharding
Experience deploying and optimizing cloud-hosted applications (AWS preferred, Kubernetes Preferred)
Exceptional collaboration, organizational, time management, and communication skills
Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to a quickly changing environment
Driven and self-motivated with a track record of finding and solving difficult problems

Nice To Haves

Experience developing with Django REST Framework
Experience with Kafka
Experience deploying applications with Kubernetes
Experience with RabbitMQ
Experience with ClickHouse
Experience with data replication technologies/redundancy to ensure High Availability and Disaster Recovery
You’ve made or contributed to open-source projects and have your fair share of side projects
Passion for data warehousing, business intelligence, and predictive analytics

Responsibilities

Work with Engineering leaders to ensure we’re building scalable, maintainable software
Partner with the product team to design feasible features, create consumable tickets, and assess implementation
Work with the Frontend Engineering Team Lead(s) to ensure that the backend tickets keep the frontend team fully enabled
Craft elegant, reliable, and scalable code
Write tests to ensure stability as the codebase evolves over time
Meet technical issues head on: troubleshooting and quickly creating resolution plans to rapidly address acute customer impact, while also planning for long-term success