Offer summary

Qualifications:

6+ years experience as a backend or full-stack engineer building web applications, 3+ years experience with Python and Django, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience, Strong work ethic, attention to detail, and a positive attitude..

Key responsibilities:

Work directly with the company’s founders to shape product and technical direction

Build and ship features quickly across the stack

Implement integrations with third-party APIs and diagnose performance issues

Utilize various testing strategies to deliver high quality, robust code.

Job description

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.

About

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 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

6+ 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. 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

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.

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