Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Identity Foundations
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Senior Backend Engineer
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudPostgresPythonSQL
About the role
- Develop and maintain backend services using Python and FastAPI focusing on creating high-performance and scalable APIs, ensuring proper error handling, input validation, and adherence to best practices
- Work with SQLModel and SQLAlchemy to manage and manipulate data in our PostgreSQL backend, ensuring efficient data retrieval and storage
- Implement and optimize CRUD operations, working closely with core objects and view definitions
- Collaborate on database schema design and optimization to support new features and improve performance
- Integrate and maintain connections to supported cloud warehouses, particularly Snowflake, ensuring seamless data flow between our platform and external data sources
- Ensure robust and secure communication between our platform and external services, handling data transformation and synchronization as needed
- Integrate and maintain our platform's connection to data visualization tools such as Sigma. Ensure seamless data flow and optimal performance for visual analytics.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, adhering to best practices in software development
- Contribute to the testing suite by writing and maintaining unit and integration tests using Pytest, ensuring high test coverage and reliability
- Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to improve code quality and team collaboration
- Work closely with frontend engineers to define API specifications and ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend systems
- Actively participate in sprint cycles, providing estimates, updates, and technical insights to help guide the development process
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, particularly with Python and FastAPI in an enterprise production environment
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with SQLAlchemy and SQLModel for database management and ORM
- Experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning
- Hands-on experience with task queues like Celery, including task scheduling, execution, and optimization
- Strong understanding of testing practices, with experience writing unit and integration tests using Pytest.
- Familiarity with version control systems like Git, and experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitLab CI
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and optimize backend performance
- Experience working in an Agile development environment, with a focus on collaboration and continuous improvement
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- PTO
- 16 annual company holidays
- 401K
- Vision Insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
PythonFastAPISQLSQLAlchemySQLModelPostgreSQLCRUD operationsPytestCeleryAgile development
Soft skills
problem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationcode reviewconstructive feedbackteamworkadaptabilityattention to detailcritical thinkingtime management
