We’re seeking a highly knowledgeable and experienced Senior Backend Engineer
who enjoys early stage environments that provide freedom to move fast and ship
new customer-facing products and features at high velocity. You’ll work
closely with the founders of the company and have a high degree of influence
and input into the direction of the product and company. The right candidate
will have a high degree of versatility and excels at creating software at all
layers of web application platforms. The role requires outstanding
communication and customer empathy skills. Since we are a remote first
company, you will simultaneously need to be able to collaborate well, and be
self-directed and work independently. The ideal person will be passionate
about building consumer data privacy software, and will have experience across
most of these areas: Python / Django Django-rest-framework Writing tests
Asynchronous jobs execution / event brokers (Celery / RabbitMQ / Redis)
Databases - Postgres, SQL, and NoSQL (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra) User
data security best practices Designing core, backend software components
Implementing integrations with third-party APIs Diagnosing and addressing
performance issues Kubernetes, microservices, and resource management AWS,
GCP, Azure HTML and Javascript experience Bonus if you have experience working
in the consumer privacy or consumer data industries, React, HTMX and
automation tools QUALIFICATIONS 5+ years experience as a backend or full-stack
engineer building web applications 3+ years experience with Python and Django
Demonstrated knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals Maturity, Self-
awareness, Empathy, a Strong work ethic, Attention to detail, and a Positive
attitude Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or
equivalent work experience LOCATION Optery is headquartered in the San
Francisco Bay Area, but operates as a fully-remote global team. While this is
not necessarily a U.S.-based position, working regular U.S. business hours,
i.e. U.S. Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific time zones, is strongly
preferred. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Competitive salary Flexible vacation policy
Stipend for home office setup EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Optery values diversity and is
an equal opportunity employer. Optery does not discriminate on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national
origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability,
genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation,
parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.
