Senior Platform Engineer (Python)

Senior/Staff/Lead Platform Engineer

We're one of the top retail analytics platforms that help marketing teams/brands understand their retail data and run targeted media campaigns without writing code. We help our clients better understand their customers and improve their ROI on campaigns. Tech Stack: Python, Django, Celery, React, Typescript, Azure.

We're looking for an outstanding Senior/Staff/Lead Platform Engineer who wants to play a core role in building for our platform team. This role will be 100% back-end focused (no FE work).

Example Responsibilities:

• New API Design: Working on making the platform more scalable and data performant.
• Complex Integrations work: Working with heavy hitters like Meta, Tik Tok, Snapchat on the ad tech side.
• Lead Async task management: We're using Celery, we'd like you to take this over and optimize how we do concurrency, distributed tasks, resource intensive jobs.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience building and scaling services in Python
• Solid understanding of datastores (ex. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis) and messaging systems (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Pub/Sub)
• Proven experience designing and maintaining high-availability, distributed backend systems (event-driven architectures, background workers, schedulers, queues - we use Azure)
• Design, implementation, and maintenance of API Services
• Has led complex feature development for an enterprise level B2B/B2C Saas Platform
• Async optimization experience (we use Celery)
• Write test suites and deploy using our CI/CD pipeline
• Experience owning an application end-to-end, and can understand/address infrastructure concerns
• Clear communicator who can document systems, explain trade-offs, and influence technical direction

Target FT Salary Range: $130,000 - $180,000* base CDN a year, with Equity & Health Benefits

*Comp range can be higher for Staff level Devs

Benefits:

• Meritocracy - Leadership opportunities as we scale
• Equity/Options grants
• Generous Time Off - Flexible remote work policies
• Platinum Benefits - Solid Health Insurance Plan
• Learn and Grow - Coaching/mentoring for your professional development