
Backend Engineer
Modulate
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Somerville • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $170,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Collaborate with engineers and product leaders to scope, design, and execute API projects
- Design, build, test, and deploy API features and improvements
- Maintain and operate production APIs to ensure reliability and performance
- Debug issues and continuously improve system stability and scalability
- Contribute to team knowledge through mentorship, demos, and technical discussions
Requirements
- Strong experience with object-oriented Python
- Experience designing and building APIs in production environments
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively within engineering teams
- Experience building greenfield systems and scaling existing products
Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity- Full health, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO, with a strong culture of taking it
- Weekly team lunches with dietary accommodations
- Hybrid work: core in-office days with flexible remote options
- Regular leadership and industry learning sessions
- Support for career development and continued learning
- Up to 8 weeks work-from-anywhere policy
- A deeply inclusive, human-centered culture
- Pay Transparency
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
object-oriented PythonAPI designAPI developmentproduction environmentssystem stabilityscalabilitydebugginggreenfield systems
Soft Skills
collaborationmentorshiptechnical discussions