Jellyfish

Senior Backend Engineer – APIs, Data, Scale

Jellyfish

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $165,000 - $235,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSDjangoPython

About the role

  • Design, plan and implement key features as part of a highly effective development team
  • Rapidly deliver value for our customers by pushing features to our AWS-hosted SaaS environment daily, with automated CI/CD pipelines
  • Provide technical and product expertise within your team and across the organization
  • Communicate effectively about project status and technical issues
  • Participate in your team’s agile process and work to continually improve your team’s capabilities
  • Provide support for production operations of the Jellyfish product
  • Actively participate in a culture supportive of growth and inclusion on your team

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building SaaS products with a focus on Back End development
  • Strong skills in Python, and passion for building production software systems using Django
  • Expert-level abilities in data modeling in relational database systems and experience with and interest in other database technologies such as columnar systems.
  • Experience with scaling, performance, and benchmarking of APIs and data processing systems.
  • Fluency with tools such as Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro and a track record of using them to build and ship fast.
  • Have worked in or interested in a growth-stage startup
  • Curiosity - great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing
  • Love learning new things and teaching others what you know
  • Strong communication skills
  • Enjoyment of collaborative work
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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