Senior Software Engineer

Role Description

RYZ Labs is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join one of our client’s teams, whose mission is to help developers build software quickly and painlessly!

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who wants to join a motivated, high-performing, and product-minded engineering team. A successful candidate will make an impact by contributing across their stack, delivering with quality, and maintaining their commitment to providing real-time insights from observability data generated by thousands of applications. They believe small, autonomous, and remote teams are the most effective way to move faster and build dynamic systems. Their highly skilled application development team works in Python, TypeScript, Next.js, and GraphQL across web applications, APIs, data pipelines, and SDKs.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience as a software engineer
• 4+ years with Python and related frameworks (Django, Flask, Pyramid, Rails, Spring, Laravel, etc.)
• 4+ years experience with API & system design
• 4+ years experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgresSQL) and their integration with applications
• Experience building with AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.)
• A deep understanding of the things you work with, and ways to make them better
• An attitude of continuous improvement and welcoming feedback

Requirements

• 2+ years experience with JavaScript/TypeScript with Node.js and React, Next.js, Vue, or similar frameworks
• 2+ years experience with Kafka or other data pipeline technologies
• Open source experience as a maintainer/core contributor of open-source projects
• Experience with a variety of data storage systems (we use ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Redis, Memcache, and BigQuery)
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes

Key Responsibilities

• Create and improve product features, implementing full-stack solutions
• Continuously improve codebase and systems, and participate in On Call rotation
• Write documentation and technical specifications for the solutions you build
• Work with an inclusive, fast-paced, collaborative group of engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver company initiatives and projects

Benefits

• Working with autonomy and efficiency
• Opportunities for learning and growth
• Challenging projects
• Sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists

Company Description

RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.

Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.

Our Values and What to Expect

• Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.
• Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.
• Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility.
• Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone that interacts with RYZ with respect.
• Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less.
• Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way.
• Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, our expectations. Status quo is not good enough and never should be.