Senior Backend Engineer, Data Platform

Trusted by more than 18,000 Shopify and Shopify Plus stores—like Brooklinen, Ruggable, True Classic and Dr. Squatch—Postscript gives ecommerce brands the tools they need to run a world-class SMS marketing program. 

We’re on a mission to make SMS the number-one revenue channel for ecommerce merchants by delivering an easy-to-use platform where they can grow their subscriber list, develop and test their messaging strategy, deliver excellent customer service, and drive sales and loyalty—all in one place. We believe SMS is the most important marketing and sales channel of the decade, and that vision drives everything we do.

Postscript was founded in 2018 as a 100% remote organization. With more than 250 employees (and counting!), we’re backed by Greylock, Y Combinator, and other top investors.

Postscript Description

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. 

Job Description

We are looking for a polyglot Senior Backend Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You’ll help build and scale the foundational services, APIs, and pipelines that power the Postscript product. This role blends strong backend engineering skills with a deep appreciation for data intensive systems, performance, and reliability. You’ll collaborate closely with other software engineers, data engineers, and product to help e-commerce marketers maximize their revenue with best-in-class targeting and context driven AI.

Primary Duties

• Design, develop, maintain, and scale the Data Platform team’s services and APIs
• Build batch and streaming data pipelines 
• Act as tech lead for individual projects: write design docs, scope tasks, and delegate to other engineers
• Maintain and enhance Postscript’s third-party integrations
• Contribute to team planning and process improvement

What We’ll Love About You

• 6+ years of experience writing and shipping production software in GoLang
• Hands on python experience in production or non-production settings
• Experience building and designing high-scale systems AWS with broad variety of database technologies (RDBMS, OLAP, NoSQL, etc.)
• Working knowledge of event-driven distributed systems, Kafka, distributed data processing technologies (Flink/Spark/etc)
• Proven track record of success in remote startups, particularly in mid to late stage companies
• Strong desire add new technologies to your toolkit
• You thrive in ambiguity and love solving complex problems
  
  

Nice to Have

• Terraform or IAC tools
• Building and deploying applications on K8s
• Experience building streaming and/or batch data pipelines and ETL

What You’ll Love About Us

• Salary range of USD $170-200k 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

What to expect from our hiring process :

• Intro Call: You’ll hop on a quick call with the Recruiter so we can get to know you better — and you can learn a little more about the role and Postscript. 
• Homework Assignment: We will send over an exercise that challenges you to solve a problem & come up with a creative solution, or outline how you've solved a problem in the past. Get a feel for what you’ll be doing on a daily basis!
• Day 1 Interviews: 
  • Hiring Manager Intro: You’ll hop on a quick call with the Hiring Manager so your future Manager can get to know you better — This is a great time to learn more about the team & position. 
  • Technical Coding Interview: You'll meet with 1 Engineer to chat through your backend development experience.
• Day 2 interviews:
  • Systems Design Interview: You'll chat with 2 Engineers to go over a previous project discussing your systems design experience.
  • Final FEACH Interview: This is our interview to assess your ability to represent how you work via our FEACH values. As we build the #1 team in Ecommerce, we look for individuals who embody FEACH professionally and personally. We want to hear about this in your final interview!
• Reference Checks: We ask to speak with at least two references who have previously worked with you, at least one should be someone who has previously managed your work.
• Offer: We send over an offer and you (hopefully) accept! Welcome to Postscript!

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

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