We’re looking for a seasoned Python backend developer with a passion for problem solving and a knack for leadership to join our fully distributed tech team full time. You're a problem-solving systems thinker with broad experience across the backend stack. If you’re interested in this role and have senior level experience, but don’t meet all of the criteria listed below, please apply anyway. We understand that growth is continuous and we are committed to helping you grow at Supertab.

Our current stack is:

Python
FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy
PostgreSQL
Docker, AWS

Your tasks

You’ll be responsible for:

Working within a backend team to improve our core product.
Leveraging your experience to simplify complex problems and provide solutions to business problems.
Playing a key role in taking our micropayments platform to market.
Working within a cross functional team of Product Managers, UX designers, Engineering Managers, and Frontend Engineers to understand the requirements and scope that drive the design of technical solutions.
Technical scoping and leading architectural discussions. Contributing clean, functioning and tested code.
Setting up and managing appropriate tooling.
Creating documentation for new features and maintaining documentation of existing ones.
Helping to identify and fix bugs, issues and performance bottlenecks.

About you

Our ideal candidate:

Has deep experience with Python and its ecosystems, as well as some experience with other parts of our tech stack.
Has some experience working in fintech, payments or ad serving.
Understands complex systems and the interactions between them in depth. Gives input on architecture and system design.
Seeks answers, refines requirements and decomposes complexity.
Translates ideas into projects with discrete tasks.
Provides mentorship to other members of the engineering team, gives guidance to and unblocks other engineers. Is sought out by others as a technical resource.
Makes good, informed decisions around technical debt and tradeoffs.
Communicates well with technical and non-technical colleagues.
Has a good understanding of API design and working with frontend engineers.
Has a good command of English: written and verbal, producing and understanding.
- As a distributed team, we primarily communicate via Slack, so the ability to clearly and completely communicate in written English is vital.
- We also frequently hop on calls, both audio and video, so the ability to clearly speak and understand English is also vital.
Has prior experience in a senior role.

How we work

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Supertab is a team of 20+ people spread over 13+ countries in time zones from UTC-8 to UTC+2. We value your work more than your presence at a desk by 9am. Most of us work Monday to Friday, 7ish to 4ish UTC together in Slack. Working hours are flexible but we expect you to overlap for at least 4 hours between 9am and 4pm UTC. We aim for asynchronicity, but still need some "synchronicity" to work well.

We’ve been a fully distributed organization since our founding, and we’re pretty proud of the supportive remote culture we’ve created. We use Slack as our office, Jira for transparency and organizing work, and video calls for real-time collaboration (and just to hang out face to face).

Our company values are:

Be fearless. Be entrepreneurial.
Simplify things.
Own your decisions. Your successes. Your mistakes.
Enjoy diversity and inclusion.
Work as a team. Trust each other.

Benefits

AllHands (biannual, in person team event)
Annual training, personal development, and wellness budget
Paid sick leave
Paid time off
Distributed, international team
Flexible work
Company laptop

Apply

If this sounds interesting, please apply here:

Upload your CV.
Let us know in your cover letter how working with us leverages your past experiences or connects with your future goals,

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Deadline

We will be accepting applications until June 6.
We’ll spend time reviewing applications until June 13 - No need to check in with us if you don’t hear anything back from us during this time!

Pay

€85k - €92k (in line with UK, Germany market) / year, negotiable based on experience and skill level.

About us

Supertab is a patented payments platform that can help supercharge the way customers buy digital goods and services. By aggregating purchases of any size, including micropayments and fractional payments, Supertab makes tiny payments possible.

We provide a suite of micropayment tools to monetize digital content and services simply and easily. We work with small and large partners to offer access to content across the web. Our backend manages our partners, merchants and customers.