Senior Fullstack Engineer, App Systems

Postscript is redefining marketing for ecommerce companies. By introducing SMS as an entirely new channel for ecommerce stores to engage, retain, and convert their customer base, brands are seeing huge ROI with Postscript. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator and other top investors, Postscript is growing fast and looking for remarkable people to help build a world class organization. To learn more about postscript, checkout this article from one of our investors, Greylock, on our vision for the Future of Marketing.

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer for the App Systems Team at Postscript, you will use your passion and expertise for software engineering to create powerful, engaging user experiences for shops onboarding onto Postscripts product offerings – including our AI offerings, and billing systems. Your work will contribute directly to the acquisition and retention of shops, and, to help make SMS their #1 revenue channel. You will be given the autonomy to grow to your full potential, and your contributions will directly impact our customers and Postscript’s bottom line.

Senior Fullstack Engineers at Postscript have a high impact on their team and on the wider engineering org through project leadership, technical expertise, and decision-making. As a Senior Engineer you will guide your team in weighing technical constraints and business priorities to make the necessary trade-offs to deliver customer value. Our primary stack is currently React, Python, and Go microservices, in a hybrid environment of monolithic and distributed architectures.

On the App Experience team our front end leverages React and Typescript, with a BE in either Go or python, with postgres, mongoDB, and snowflake as data sources. 

Your passion for building great products, especially in early-stage companies, will lead you to have a meaningful and 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.

This position is  fully remote in North America.

Primary duties

• Research, design, and deploy new technical solutions for a variety of ground-breaking projects
• Architect, build, and maintain REST APIs for external and internal customers
• Help architect and iterate on our growing list of onboarding tools
• Collaborate closely on a cross-functional team to deliver a world-class product
• Take ownership and get creative with your solutions, dive into bold ideas in order to achieve outstanding results
• Contribute to the health of the team through honest and direct feedback as we iterate and improve on our processes
• Guide your team to make optimal technical and product design decisions
• Mentor other engineers on best practices, standards, and learning opportunities
• Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management

Requirements

• A track record as a software engineer who has led high performing teams or projects—SaaS experience preferred
• A proven career as a software engineer developing backend applications and APIs, hands-on expertise using Go, Python, and React
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, and experience with database modeling
• Familiarity with building applications on AWS services
• Experience building modular, flexible architectures (maximizing readability and extensibility)
• Working familiarity with component design, state management, and testing in a React app
• History of pragmatically adopting new technology to support teamwork and great engineering, product, and design outcomes
• Stellar verbal and written communication skills
• Experience building great products (high growth, early stage tech preferred)
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers

What We’ll Love About You

• You’re curious and enthusiastic—you love building things
• Energized by early stage companies and the opportunity to own and improve a new, fast-growing codebase
• You can drive technical decisions by measuring trade offs informed by both business priorities and technical needs
• You have empathy for users and enjoy helping others
• Strong attention to detail
• Bonus: Remote work experience. You love working on a remote-first team

What You’ll Love About Us

• Salary range of USD $170,000 - $200,000 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!
• 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

You are welcome here. Postscript is an ever-evolving place of equal employment for talented individuals.