Senior Software Engineer – Platform Core

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create, develop, test, and manage distributed backend services and APIs that facilitate high-volume customer interactions.

• Assume complete ownership of platform initiatives, from defining ambiguous challenges and formulating technical strategies to execution, deployment, and production assistance.

• Enhance the reliability, scalability, latency, and cost-effectiveness of shared platform systems that benefit various teams across the organization.

• Collaborate closely with Product, SRE, and fellow engineering teams to implement platform enhancements while ensuring live traffic remains stable.

• Engage in on-call duties, incident management, troubleshooting, and the ongoing enhancement of alerting, runbooks, deployment quality, and capacity planning.

• Elevate engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, collaborative work, thorough documentation, and mentorship for team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5-7+ years of experience in building backend services and APIs in a production environment, or equivalent practical expertise.

• Strong hands-on proficiency in Python and/or Go.

• Familiarity with distributed systems, concurrency, and cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP utilizing Kubernetes and Docker.

• Demonstrated production ownership, including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and participation in on-call duties for high-scale services.

• Significant experience with data and messaging technologies such as PostgreSQL or Aurora, Redis, and RabbitMQ, along with the capacity to analyze reliability, performance, and scalability trade-offs.

• Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with Redshift, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, or IAM.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform.

• Strong observability practices across metrics, logs, and traces.

• Experience in scaling or migrating databases, including read replicas, cluster mode, or engine migrations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, featuring RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) for all employees, ensuring shared long-term success.

• Remote-first environment, providing flexibility and autonomy in structuring your workday.

• While we embrace flexible work, we value meaningful in-person interactions through regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings that promote connection, collaboration, and joint success.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Comprehensive health and welfare plans to select from, including one employer-paid “employee-only” plan!

• Exceptional Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution.

• Affordable vision and dental plans for you and your family, ensuring extensive coverage and peace of mind.

• Paid Parental Leave - applicable to birth, adoptive, and foster parents.

• One year of diaper delivery for your newest family member! Our way of welcoming new Pindroplets to the family!

• Monthly phone and internet allowance to assist with essential connectivity expenses and support flexible work arrangements.

• Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits to aid family-building journeys and personalized health needs.

• Annual Learning & Development stipend to foster your professional growth, skill enhancement, certifications, and ongoing education.