
Senior Backend Engineer
Zigsaw
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United 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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
PythonDjangoAPIsMySQLtestingmicroservice architecturecontainerizationRedissoftware qualityweb applications
Soft Skills
remote communicationautonomyproblem-solvingadaptabilitymentoringcollaborationguidancecreativityhigh engineering standardspressure management
Certifications
Computer Science degree