Staff Backend Engineer, Flow Builder Team

The job overview for this role is that Postscript is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for their Flow Builder team. The role involves using expertise in building scalable and extensible distributed systems to enhance the platform experience and empower all Postscript teams to build new features. The Staff Backend Engineer will have a significant impact on customers and the company's bottom line, and will also have the opportunity to mentor and grow engineers, solve challenging problems, and contribute to architecture and processes as the company scales. The position is fully remote.

• Architect and build highly available, extensible, and scalable platform primitives and REST APIs for external and internal customers
• Take ownership and be creative as you deep dive into arbitrarily complex problems and find appropriate paths forward
• Identify and execute on points of scale in order to maximize throughput and efficiency
• Translate business opportunities and unknowns into clearly defined architecture solutions that our teams can own and implement
• Work closely with product, design, and other engineers on your team to deliver a high quality, world-class product
• Lead group sessions to actively ensure your team is guided by product-focused architecture and implementation to achieve our goals
• Coach and mentor other engineers on coding best practices and growth opportunities
• Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management

• Proven career as a software engineer building large scale, high throughput backend applications and APIs
• Hands-on experience with architecting and building highly available, extensible, and scalable platform primitives and REST APIs for external and internal customers
• Ability to deep dive into arbitrarily complex problems and find appropriate solutions
• Knowledge and experience in identifying and executing on points of scale to maximize throughput and efficiency
• Strong ability to translate business opportunities and unknowns into clearly defined architecture solutions
• Collaboration skills to work closely with product, design, and other engineers to deliver a high quality product
• Leadership skills to lead group sessions and guide the team with product-focused architecture and implementation
• Coaching and mentoring abilities to help other engineers with coding best practices and growth opportunities
• Strong communication skills, including transparent and proactive communication, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, and risk and change management

• Salary range of USD $200,000 to $230,000 base plus significant equity regardless of location
• High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!
• Remote team - work from home (or wherever!)
• Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, vision insurance
• Other great perks, such as home office stipend