Senior Software 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.

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform team at Postscript, you will enrich the Postscript product with cross-domain data services and integrations. The Data Platform team at Postscript focuses on data integration through various sources like our production application, ecommerce platforms like Shopify, and various 3rd party ecommerce integrations. You will focus on designing and building end to end data pipeline solutions: data ingestion, propagation, persistence, and service development to support our core products, analytics, and our internal BI organization. This role is critical in ensuring data and events are reliable and actionable throughout the Postscript Platform and is crucial in advancing our product-driven AI efforts.

This position is fully remote, and Postscript has been a fully remote company since day 1.

Primary duties

• Architect and build highly available, performant and scalable distributed data systems
• Build and scale new services to support our product with cross domain data needs
• Take ownership and be creative with your solutions as you help deliver excellent products to our customers
• Design, build, and maintain systems that manage 3rd party data integrations
• Mentor and support your fellow engineers via code reviews, design reviews and peer feedback
• Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years professional software development experience
• A proven career as a software engineer developing production data systems
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining applications on AWS
• Experience designing data models, schemas and operating complex data pipelines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience building great products (high growth, early stage tech preferred)
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers

What We’ll Love About You

• You’ve built data intensive software solutions solutions in an AWS environment and have working experience with several AWS services (ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Elasticache, etc.)
• You have a broad range of experience with data persistence technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL, OLAP, etc.) and know how to select the right tool for the job
• You’ve worked in event driven systems and have experience with technologies like Kafka, Kinesis , RabbitMQ, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure as code technologies like Terraform
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity and like to dig into the problems as much as you love creating solutions
• You stay abreast of new technologies and are always looking to incorporate them into our stack

What You’ll Love About Us

• Salary range of USD $170,000-$200,000 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

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