Senior Backend Engineer, Postscript
Acquisition and App Experience
$170-200k
+ Equity
SMS marketing platform for eCommerce companies
Open for applications
SMS marketing platform for eCommerce companies
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$170-200k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make SMS the #1 Revenue Channel for Merchants.
Role
Who you are
- A track record of leading teams and projects through phases of ambiguity and challenge with great results—SaaS experience preferred
- A proven career as a software engineer building large scale backend applications and APIs, hands-on experience using Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, compiled language experience a plus)
- Experience with relational databases, SQL, and experience with database modeling
- Familiarity with building applications on AWS services and maintaining high observability of the applications
- Experience building modular, flexible architectures (maximizing readability and extensibility)
- Stellar verbal and written communication skills
- Experience building great products (high growth, early stage tech preferred)
- Experience coaching and mentoring engineers
- 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
- Bonus: Remote work experience. You love working on a remote-first team
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer for the Acquisition and App Experience Team at Postscript, you will use your passion and expertise for software engineering to create powerful, differentiated acquisition tools that enable brands to grow their subscriber list on and off-site
- Your work will contribute directly to the growth of our customers’ subscriber lists and the collection of valuable subscriber data, 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 Backend 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 stack is currently React, Python (Flask), within a mostly monolithic, AWS-managed architecture
- On the Acquisition and App Experience team our SDK additionally leverages Lit Web Components and TypeScript, a mix of Cloudflare and AWS-managed architecture, and Shopify App Extensions
- Our SDK sees several billion requests a month to over 150 million unique users, and our API handles millions of requests daily
- 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.
- Research, design, and deploy new technical solutions for a variety of ground-breaking projects
- Architect, build, and maintain highly available, extensible, and scalable REST APIs for external and internal customers
- Help architect and iterate on our growing list of acquisition 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 and growth opportunities
- Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management
Our take
SMS marketing can be an extremely effective tool for eCommerce businesses, but it can often be invasive and irritating to consumers. Postscript solves this problem by offering personalized and optimized SMS advertising.
SMS marketing is nothing new, but Postscript has set itself apart by maintaining a laser-sharp focus on Shopify stores. As a result, the company has tapped into a previously underserved market that has seen rapid, continuous growth in recent years.
As eCommerce sales via SMS continue to rise in the US, Postscript is well-positioned to lead the market, helping more merchants develop personalized, effective communication strategies that drive customer loyalty and revenue.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$65m
SERIES C
Mar 2021
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $104.7m
Company benefits
- Work from home (or anywhere!)
- Full team off-sites in cool places
- Growth is encouraged, with lots of direct feedback
- We have fun and celebrate wins
- Culture of transparency and trust
- Flexible vacation
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Equity grants
- And more..
Company values
- Fearless: Never operate from a place of fear. Making mistakes is fine. It is how we learn and grow from our mistakes where the magic really happens
- Excellence: Striving to be the #1 Team in Ecommerce, we are always pushing for the most Excellent results
- Animal: We move with urgency and default to action. We are relentless when diving into the unknown and we celebrate our teammates when they attack a problem
- Customer-first: We are obsessed with providing our customers with value. To be the #1 Team in Ecommerce, we have to care about our customers on another level
- Humility: No room for jerks and ego. We have a team- first mindset and actively embrace change. Continuous feedback is part of working toward excellence
Company HQ
South Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ
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Leadership
Adam Turner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked in Business Intelligence at Bitium. They also co-founded Wilbits where they worked in Product and Engineering, as well at serving as a Product Manager at StackCommerce before co-founding Postscript.
Colin Turner
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously co-founded Wiblits. They also worked at Verimatrix for over 5 years in multiple roles, including Project Manager.
Alex Beller
(Co-Founder)Previously the Director of Business Development at StockCommerce.
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