Senior Backend Engineer (Platform & Infrastructure)

• The Prismatic platform puts an enormous amount of power in the hands of less-technical users, providing them a cohesive system for developing, testing, deploying, and monitoring integrations
• This makes infrastructure a key part of shaping product capabilities and user outcomes, making this a unique opportunity for engineers who want their work to have direct product impact
• The system is hosted in AWS, automated with Terraform and GitLab CI, with TypeScript used heavily across backend services, both internal and public-facing
• We’re looking for a Senior Engineer who is excited to work as part of a fully remote team to build new internal and public-facing services, improve performance and observability, and scale our platform to support a growing team and product
• We expect every engineer to contribute thoughtful, meaningful code and participate in architectural and design discussions that span the full stack
• In this role you’ll participate in technical decision-making, planning, and mentorship of others interested in learning more about our infrastructure
• You’ll collaborate with other backend engineers as well as folks in security and support, with opportunity for impact across the entire product
• Write clean, maintainable, production-ready code that meets high-quality standards both within the core Infrastructure and related parts of the Prismatic Product
• Lead projects from conception through production deployment
• Support and empower a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, product managers and business stakeholders
• Collaborate and contribute as a member of a full-stack product development team
• Create strong developer experiences through our dashboard, documentation, APIs, and SDKs
• Discover and advocate for new techniques and technologies to accelerate improvements in the reliability and scalability of Prismatic
• Participate in the Platform On-Call rotation
• Routinely provide sound feedback in code reviews, design reviews, security reviews, etc
• Coach and mentor less experienced teammates as you build domain expertise
• Be part of a highly collaborative, fully remote team that ships new code into production every day
• Our tech stack:
• Cloud - AWS
• Databases - Postgres, Redis
• Backend API - Python & Django
• Backend Integration Platform - Typescript
• Frontend - Typescript & React
• SDKs - Typescript

Benefits

• Remote work: Our team works remotely across the US; we travel together several times a year for company kick-offs and mid-year meetings
• Unlimited PTO: We have an unlimited & flexible paid time off (PTO) policy that encourages our team to recharge when they need to
• Medical, dental & vision: Prismatic offers high-quality medical (Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield), dental (Delta Dental), and vision (VSP) care for full-time employees and their dependents
• Life insurance: We provide company-paid life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance through Hartford
• 401(k): Our 401(k) plan is through Guideline with 5% company match - 100% of the first 3% and 50% of the next 2%
• Computer & technology equipment applicable to your role

• Demonstrate expertise building and evolving large-scale, distributed production systems
• Have hands-on experience building for, and operating FaaS environments like AWS Lambda
• Have experience in the Javascript / Typescript, and Python ecosystems
• Write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
• Have experience implementing AWS-based Cloud Infrastructure using Infrastructure-As-Code technologies like Terraform and Docker
• Have 5+ years of progressive experience in professional software development, with a track record of technical leadership and architectural contributions, ideally in startups
• Enjoy tackling complex CI/CD scenarios
• Are a strong advocate for engineering excellence, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• Are committed to working in a communicative and collaborative environment
• Have experience, and opinions, on how to best use AI Coding agents to accelerate your work
• If this role excites you but you’re not sure you check every box, apply anyway
• Professional experience with some of the following:
• GraphQL
• Redis
• PostgresQL
• Gitlab CI/CD
• Having a GitHub or similar that you’re proud to show off