The Role :
We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who thrives in fast-paced, early-stage environments.
You'll work directly with the company's founders and help shape both the product and technical direction.
This is a high-impact, high-ownership role ideal for someone who enjoys building across the stack and shipping features quickly.
We value clear communication, empathy for customers, and a collaborative mindset.
Since we're a fully remote company, success in this role also requires self-direction and strong time management.
The ideal person will be passionate about building consumer data privacy software, and will have experience across most of these areas:
- Python / Django
- Working in Django at Scale
- Django-rest-framework and/or django-ninja
- Utilizing various testing strategies to deliver high quality, robust code
- Asynchronous jobs execution / event brokers (Celery / RabbitMQ / Redis)
- Databases - Postgres and NoSQL (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra)
- User data security best practices
- Designing maintainable, scalable backend software components
- Implementing integrations with third-party APIs
- Diagnosing and addressing performance issues
- Kubernetes, microservices, and resource management
- AWS (preferred), 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 :
- 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.
We embrace asynchronous work, but overlap with U.S. time zones is important for team collaboration.
Compensation & Benefits :
- $60K - $90K
- Paid time off policy
- Stipend for home office setup
Equal Opportunity :
Compensation Range: $60K - $90K
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