Senior Backend Engineer, Python

Supertab

full-time

Posted on: 9/4/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 €85,000 - €92,000 per year

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About the role

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.

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.
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.
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.