Senior Backend Software Engineer

THE TEAM You’ll be joining an exceptionally talented and experienced team focusing on further demonstrating the feasibility and possibility of internal ideation through the development of rapid prototypes and minimum viable products. We're also a people-focused Engineering organization: the women and men on our team value working together in small teams to solve big problems, supporting an active culture of mentorship and inclusion, and pushing themselves to learn new things daily. This is a unique opportunity to influence both the future of the business and the industry in a huge way. THE ROLE As a software engineer you’ll work closely with product managers, designers and fellow engineers on solving challenging problems. You will own your products end-to-end and help take the company to the next level. You’ll join a safe environment to ask questions and constructively suggest whether there is a better way to do something. You should not be risk averse or fear failure, but be able to leverage a combination of technical skills, personal conviction, and curiosity to constantly push in what ends up hopefully being the right direction. THE SKILL SET 6+ years of proven work experience successfully building web applications Proficiency in Python (ideally), Django/Flask and MySQL Comfort with the balancing act of rapidly building prototypes and minimum viable products while simultaneously creating readable, testable and maintainable code Passionate about emerging technologies, and a desire to lead the team to adopt technologies for the right reasons Strong desire to collaborate on building tools to improve the developer experience Proven ability to respectfully influence architectural and technical decisions Excellent written and oral communication skills