Staff Engineer, Backend

Pacifica Continental

full-time

Posted on: 9/20/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

Designing, building, and deploying production software to meet immediate and future business needs.
Provide technical leadership, defining patterns and operational guidelines for their domain(s).
Managing large, technical projects (e.g., integrating with payment providers, creating data-driven products/services, designing scalable architecture).
Actively participate in the development of others by leveraging expertise inside and outside own team.
Clearly communicate technical issues to team and stakeholders and tie work to company objectives.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to design and implement internal and customer-facing features and tools.
Write unit/integration tests, contribute to engineering wiki, and document software architecture and functionality.
Drive end-to-end delivery of products while optimizing technical performance, reliability, and scalability.
Embody company values: Curiosity, Passion, Courage, Humility, Drive, and Empathy.

+5 years experience working with Python building large scale web applications/APIs in a framework such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
Knowledge of Django Rest Framework is a plus.
Understanding or desire to learn Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD processes.
Experience collaborating with internal stakeholders including Customer Experience, Marketing, and Operations.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, frequently changing, and evolving environment.
Direct-to-Consumer and/or e-commerce experience is a plus.
Skilled in communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders, including translating business requirements into technical specifications.
Engineering competencies: Communication & Impact; Teamwork; Productivity; Knowledge.
Core competencies: Communication/Collaboration; Expertise; Feedback & Resilience; Scope & Autonomy; Prioritization; Problem Solving & Evaluating Alternatives.