Senior Software Engineer, Backend
About The Position
Perpay is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer passionate about backend technology, excellent user experience, and system reliability. The ideal candidate will have experience leading the technical design and implementation of backend features for sizable production applications. In this role, you will write code, review PRs, mentor engineers, and contribute to the scoping and design of new features. Perpay values engineers who are excited about solving complex problems and delivering solutions in a fast-paced environment. While many team members are full-stack, Perpay encourages team members to learn new technologies and work across different stacks. The tech stack includes Javascript, React, React Native, Redux, Python, Django, Flask, Kubernetes, AWS, and Docker.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building web applications at scale in at least one modern language / framework (e.g. Python/Django, Rails, etc.)
- 2+ years of experience leading technical teams and large, complex projects
- Deep understanding of relational databases (e.g., Postgres), query optimization, indexing strategies, and schema evolution
- Experience operating production systems in a large cloud provider (e.g. AWS)
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker) and orchestration systems (Kubernetes)
- Experience with background job systems and message queues (e.g. Celery)
- Working knowledge of caching strategies (e.g. Redis)
- Experience with monitoring/observability tooling (e.g. Datadog, CloudWatch)
- Strong understanding of system reliability, failure modes, and operational tradeoffs
- Ability to communicate complex system behavior clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- A solutions-oriented mindset, willing to step outside your primary domain to unblock teammates and ensure successful delivery
Nice To Haves
- Experience with React Native
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve RESTful APIs used by our frontend and internal systems
- Own data modeling decisions across our relational databases with an eye toward performance and maintainability
- Improve reliability, observability, and operational excellence of our backend systems (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
- Participate in architectural decisions around service boundaries, asynchronous workflows, and distributed system tradeoffs
- Diagnose and resolve production issues across multiple services
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD improvements to increase developer velocity and system stability
- Partner with product and stakeholders to translate complex business rules into maintainable backend systems
Benefits
- Meaningful compensation and equity
- Premium medical benefits (fully paid base plan, and very reasonable premium for the buy-up option)
- 4% employer 401k match
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Remote weeks around major holidays + extra holiday on weekends like MDW and LDW
- High quality catered lunch by local chefs, 4 days / week
- Gym subsidy
- Paid cell phone + plan
- Student loan repayment program
- Relocation assistance
- Generous team member discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
