Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Python)

This is a remote position.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Python) to join our team.

Responsibilites:

• Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features.
• Implementing new AI features to turbocharge our customers’ daily tasks.
• Improving the performance and scalability of our GraphQL and REST API.
• Improving how we sync millions of sales emails and calendar events each month.
• Working with Twilio's API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our calling features.
• Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data.
• Improving our Elasticsearch-backed powerful search features.
• Improving our internal messaging infrastructure using streaming technologies like Kafka and Redis Building new and enhancing existing integrations with other SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite, Zapier, and web conferencing providersEnhancing our web app with real-time updates powered by GraphQL Subscriptions.
• Leveraging the latest AI LLMs from providers like OpenAI, Groq and AssemblyAI.

Requirements

• Senior 1 & 2 level candidates should have 5+ years of experience building modern back-end systems.
• Staff level candidates should have 8+ years of experience.
• Mid-level candidates should have :3 years of similar experience and be eager to level up with the right opportunity.
• Professional Python experience is preferred but a working knowledge of Python with additional experience in other languages is acceptable if you have a desire to work with Python.
• You have built web APIs that were Internet facing or supported other high volume loads.
• You have hands-on production experience working with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or similar data stores.
• You have experience designing, scaling, debugging, and optimizing systems to make them fast and reliable.
• You have participated in code reviews and provided overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase.
• You care about the craftsmanship of the code and systems you produce.
• You are able to speak and write in English.
• You are located in the USA (ET, CT, MT, PT).

Bonus point if you have:

• Contributed open source code related to our tech stack.
• Led small project teams building and launching features.
• Built B2B SaaS products.
• Implemented features that leveraged AI to deliver unimaginable new product capabilities.
• Worked with complex architectures that support multiple APIs (e.g. REST, GQL, WebSockets) as well as async task and event processing frameworks.

Benefits

• Work Location: Remote
• 5 days working