Senior Fullstack Engineer

** We are not open to working with external agencies on this role and are only considering candidates based in North America**

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer at Postscript, you will utilize strong software engineering and product skills to build and maintain products across our backend and frontend systems. Our backend stack is a Python (Flask) API with a PostgreSQL database hosted on AWS, and our frontend stack is a modern React app that leverages Styled components, Storybook, and Cypress integration tests. Senior Engineers at Postscript are key members of the team that directly impact the team as an individual contributor and also through critical leadership, mentorship, and decision-making activities. As a Senior Engineer you will guide your team in weighing trade-offs of technical constraints and business priorities to consistently deliver customer value.

Your passion for building great products, especially in early-stage companies, will lead you to have a meaningful positive impact on both the product and the company. In addition, you will have the opportunity to help expand the engineering team and build out architecture and processes as we scale. We are scaling and growing our Engineering Team, and this is one of many positions available. This role is fully remote.

Primary Duties

• Build products that deliver customer value and/or business value through software engineering and product development skills
• Lead a team through make technical and product design decisions to get work done including weighting trade-offs of customer value, technical constraints, and business priorities 
• Work closely with others, including engineers, designers, and product managers as part of a cross-functional product team, to deliver a beautiful, world-class product
• Take ownership and get creative with your solutions
• Mentor other engineers on best practices, standards, and learning opportunities
• Lead group sessions to actively ensure your team is guided by product-focused architecture and implementation to achieve our goals 

Requirements

• Experience building or directly contributing to a great product
• A proven career as a software engineer developing full stack applications
• Experience  using Python (Flask and SQLAlchemy a plus) and JavaScript (React a plus) 
• Experience building applications on Cloud Services (AWS preferred)  
• Expert with relational databases, proficient in SQL, and experience with database modeling (PostgreSQL a plus)
• A proven ability to transform complex technical concepts into technical designs and be an expert in software design, architecture, implementation, deployment and support across our stack
• Holistic understanding of the software development lifecycle and uses this understanding to define best practices for their team and drive improvements in all aspects of the dev lifecycle
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, translating complex technical requirements into easy to follow direction and documentation

What we’ll love about you

• Experience building or directly contributing to a great product
• Comfortable working outside your strengths and knowing how to partner with others to get work done 
• Experience shaping the end product through active contribution in product conversations and other settings
• Recognized as an experienced professional who is a leader in their team and technical area 
• Passion for customers/users and delivering value to them
• Passion for early stage companies and the opportunity to be responsible for owning and improving a new, fast-growing code base

What You’ll Love About Us

• Salary range of USD $167,400 to $190,200 base plus significant equity (we do not have geo based salaries)
• High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!
• Remote team - work from home (or wherever!)
• Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, vision insurance
• Other great perks, such as home office stipend

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