Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

People Data Labs

2d•$160,000 - $180,000•Remote

About The Position

People Data Labs (PDL) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack to join their Delivery and API Team. This role is crucial in accelerating the development of standalone data products that empower data teams and independent developers. The engineer will work on continuously improving existing APIs and delivery methods, as well as creating new ones. PDL is looking for individuals who can balance extreme ownership with a "one-team, one-dream" mindset, and who are thoughtful, quirky, and willing to fearlessly try new things. Failure is embraced at PDL as long as there is continuous learning and growth. This position offers a high level of autonomy and opportunity for direct contributions in the data-as-a-service (DaaS) field.

Requirements

5-7+ years of industry experience with clear examples of strategic technical problem-solving and implementation
Strong software development fundamentals
Experience working in systems where you’ve had to engage with existing implementation patterns and evolve them over time
4+ years of experience with Python in a production environment
REST API design and backends such as Node.js, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Rails or similar
SQL and SQL stores, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or similar
3+ years of experience with React.js with Typescript
Experience with Next.js (or other React.js frontend frameworks)
Experience with frontend testing frameworks and practices
High attention to detail coupled with a strong understanding of CSS fundamentals; experience using Tailwind CSS
Experience refining designs with UI/UX designers and while meaningfully contributing to the design and asserting a customer-centric perspective
Experience building and maintaining a UI component library
Experience working with Figma or similar UX design tools
Experience with page-load and interaction performance
Must thrive in a fast-paced environment and be able to work independently
It’s no sweat to scope, breakdown, and estimate projects effectively with a solid track record of delivery
You communicate progress and blockers effectively with your manager, team, and stakeholders
Strong written communication skills on Slack/Chat and in documents
You collaborate well across engineering, design, and product management
Experienced in writing technical design docs and translating technical design documents into projects, milestones, and backlogs

Nice To Haves

Experience with Vercel

Responsibilities

Drive our self-serve product offerings to bring prospective customers into our products and grow new revenue
Drive the core tools that our customer success team uses to support our customers
Understand and translate our business requirements into the systems that support our core business activities
Proactively work with stakeholders to clarify ambiguities in business operations and system design
Design and update our systems using good design patterns on both frontend and backend, which allow for extensibility and evolution as our business evolves
Ensure the integrity (correctness and accuracy) of data captured around key business activities so that we have a reliable source of truth on our operations
Build and maintain our frontend components, design, and architecture
Ensure the quality and reliability of frontend surfaces presented to users and the accuracy and effectiveness of the application stack supporting those surfaces
Mentoring and developing engineers
Ensure and develop solid code quality and development practices and standards within the team