The Role
We’re seeking a highly knowledgeable and experienced Senior Backend Engineer who enjoys early stage environments that provide freedom to move fast and ship new customer-facing products and features at high velocity. You’ll work closely with the founders of the company and have a high degree of influence and input into the direction of the product and company. The right candidate will have a high degree of versatility and excels at creating software at all layers of web application platforms. The role requires outstanding communication and customer empathy skills.
Since we are a remote first company, you will simultaneously need to be able to collaborate well, and be self-directed and work independently.The ideal person will be passionate about building consumer data privacy software, and will have experience across most of these areas:
Python / Django
Django-rest-framework
Writing tests
Asynchronous jobs execution / event brokers (Celery / RabbitMQ / Redis)
Databases - Postgres, SQL, and NoSQL (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra)
User data security best practices
Designing core, backend software components
Implementing integrations with third-party APIs
Diagnosing and addressing performance issues
Kubernetes, microservices, and resource management
AWS, GCP, Azure
HTML and Javascript experience
Bonus if you have experience working in the consumer privacy or consumer data industries, React, HTMX and automation tools
Qualifications
5+ years experience as a backend or full-stack engineer building web applications
2+ years experience with Python and Django
Demonstrated knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals
Maturity, Self-awareness, Empathy, a Strong work ethic, Attention to detail, and a Positive attitude
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience
Location
Optery is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, but operates as a fully-remote global team. While this is not necessarily a U.S.-based position, working regular U.S. business hours, i.e. U.S. Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific time zones, is strongly preferred.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive salary
Flexible vacation policy
Stipend for home office setup
Equal Opportunity
Optery values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. Optery does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.
Compensation:USD 30000-60000
