Senior Software Engineer (Platform Core)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs for high-volume customer interactions.
• Own platform work from problem framing and technical planning through implementation, rollout, and production support.
• Improve reliability, scalability, latency, cost, and SLA performance across shared platform systems.
• Partner with Product, SRE, and engineering teams to deliver platform improvements without destabilizing live traffic.
• Participate in on-call, incident response, troubleshooting, alerting, runbook improvements, deployment quality, and capacity planning.
• Contribute to code reviews, design reviews, pairing, documentation, and mentorship.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of experience building backend services and APIs in production, or equivalent practical depth.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or Go.
• Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP using Kubernetes and Docker.
• Production ownership experience including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and on-call support for high-scale services.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or Aurora, Redis, and RabbitMQ, with the ability to reason about reliability, performance, and scale tradeoffs.
• Preferred experience with Redshift, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, IAM, Terraform, observability, and database scaling or migration.

Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with flexibility and autonomy.
• Regular team off-sites, company-wide events, and intentional in-person gatherings.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Health and welfare plans, including an employer-paid employee-only plan.
• Employer contributions to a Health Savings Account.
• Vision and dental coverage for employees and families.
• Paid parental leave for birth, adoptive, and foster parents.
• One year of diaper delivery for new additions to the family.
• Monthly phone and internet allowance.
• Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits.
• Annual learning and development stipend for growth, certifications, and continued education.
• RSUs are offered to all employees.