Postscript : Staff Backend Engineer ( Remote USA) United States

Back-End Developer is needed in United States.

Postscript is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, Flow Builder Team. This job has been crawled from the web.

Location: Remote (within the USA)
Contract: Freelancer / full time

About the role

As a Staff Backend Engineer for the Flow Builder team you will use your expertise and passion for building scalable and extensible distributed systems to help us enhance our platform experience and empower all Postscript teams to seamlessly build new features into the Flow Builder platform. As a technical leader you will set the bar for the maintainability and performance of our systems. You will be given the autonomy to grow to your full potential and your work will directly impact our customers and Postscript’s bottom line.

Staff Backend Engineers at Postscript are highly skilled product-minded engineers that have organizational wide impact through empathetic leadership, mentorship, problem solving, clear communication, and informed decision-making. As a part of Engineering Leadership you will partner with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to drive the vision and direction of our product and the codebase. You will guide your team in weighing technical constraints and business priorities to make the necessary trade-offs to deliver customer value. Our backend services millions of requests a day, and is built on REST APIs and asynchronous pipelines written in Python and hosted in AWS. We ship code daily to rapidly & iteratively build world-class features, attack technical debt, and re-architect for scale.

Your passion for building great products, especially in early-stage companies, will lead you to have a significant impact on both our customers and business. In addition, you will have the opportunity to help grow engineers, solve challenging problems, and build out architecture and processes as we scale. This position is fully remote.

Primary Duties
-Architect and build highly available, extensible, and scalable platform primitives and REST APIs allowing external and internal customers to seamlessly integrate with the Flow Builder platform
-Take deep dives into arbitrarily complex problems and find appropriate paths forward
-Proactively identify and execute on points of scale in order to maximize throughput and efficiency in our Flow Builder platform
-Be accountable for solving difficult scaling challenges as our product experiences fast growth and adoption
-Understand and anticipate the technological needs and problems that pose a risk to our customers and business
-Translate business opportunities and unknowns into clearly defined architecture solutions that our teams can own and implement
-Work closely with product, design, and other engineers on your team to deliver a high quality, world-class product
-Lead group sessions to actively ensure your team is guided by product-focused architecture and implementation to achieve our goals
-Help facilitate individual growth by providing actionable feedback, coaching, mentoring, and sponsoring of other engineers
-Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management

In what capacity are you hiring?
On behalf of another company

Where are you in the hiring process?
I’m ready to make a paid hire

Would you like to state a preference for hiring from underrepresented group(s)?
No preference

Where did you find Twine?
You contacted me

Is this an independent one off job, or part of a larger project?
Part of a larger ongoing project

For what period of time will the freelancer be needed?
Long term

What freelancer experience level is needed? (per hour)
Mid-level (Industry Average): $35-75, Senior: $75-100