Zigsaw

Senior Backend Engineer

Zigsaw

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $123,696 - $254,667 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Own and deliver key product features from design through deployment, working closely with design, product, and other stakeholders.
  • Mentor and support engineers, offering guidance and helping to reinforce high engineering standards across the team.
  • Collaborate closely with design, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a user-friendly and engaging product for our customers.
  • Ship high-performing and resilient APIs that adhere to industry standards and are delightful to use.
  • Step into a technical lead role on projects as needed, coordinating across functions and guiding execution without formal authority.
  • Maintain a high standard of quality across our codebase by advocating for cleanliness, readability, speed, testability, and documentation.
  • Champion software quality, emphasizing readability, reliability, testability, and documentation.

Requirements

  • Experience working with Python backends (ideally Django).
  • Exceptional remote communication skills. Especially in writing.
  • The ability to work autonomously in a startup environment; you thrive under pressure and are comfortable adapting to rapidly evolving plans.
  • Proven production experience working with a relational database (we use MySQL). Bonus points for experience working with other types of datastores or backing services.
  • A rigorous approach to software quality. You like to write tests.
  • A knack for learning new technologies, strong problem-solving skills, and an openness to creative solutions.
  • A genuine passion for crafting reliable web applications. You get it right the first time.
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent.
  • Nice-to-Haves: Adtech Experience.
  • Specific Domain Experience in CTV.
  • Familiarity with AWS services, experience working in a microservice architecture or with containerization technologies.
  • Previous involvement in a production environment with a customer-facing reporting and analytics system.
  • Experience working with other types of datastores or backing services, like Redis.
Benefits
  • Equity opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonDjangoAPIsMySQLtestingmicroservice architecturecontainerizationRedissoftware qualityweb applications
Soft Skills
remote communicationautonomyproblem-solvingadaptabilitymentoringcollaborationguidancecreativityhigh engineering standardspressure management
Certifications
Computer Science degree