Staff Python Engineer, Django

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September 18

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

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eCommerce • Marketing • SaaS

Privy is a comprehensive marketing platform designed to help online businesses grow sales and engage customers through email and SMS campaigns. With a focus on eCommerce, especially Shopify and Wix stores, Privy offers a variety of tools such as popups, email newsletters, cart abandonment solutions, and SMS marketing to enhance customer interaction. The platform emphasizes ease of use, providing customizable templates, expert coaching, and out-of-the-box automation to simplify the marketing process. Privy's mission is to empower businesses with powerful marketing tools that drive revenue without the complexity, making it an ideal solution for brands of all sizes.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2011

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership for a Django-based SMS marketing platform focused on stability and scaling high-volume messaging infrastructure • Lead technical initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability for our high-volume SMS platform • Maintain and simplify distributed system for segmenting and delivering SMS messages at high volume • Create technical documentation, runbooks, and development tooling to reduce knowledge siloing and improve developer experience • Provide architectural and system design direction for new capabilities and scaling existing capabilities • Support engineers through hands-on technical mentorship while remaining actively involved in code development • Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to or lead incident response as necessary • Collaborate with Ruby/Rails engineering team leaders to establish engineering strategy

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on SaaS software development experience with at least 3+ years developing in Python/Django • Deep experience with message queuing systems (Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS, etc.), distributed systems, and both monolithic and service oriented architectures • Proven track record of improving legacy codebases and experience working with legacy Django systems - experience upgrading legacy Django systems is a plus • Strong systems design skills with experience building horizontally scalable architectures • Experience with SMS/telephony or email delivery systems - Twilio is a plus • Strong written communication skills and established habits communicating asynchronously and teaching through technical documentation • Have been in a Senior+ hands-on coding role in the last 2 years

🏖️ Benefits

• High autonomy with no career ceilings • Challenging and interesting work • Amazing colleagues • Competitive salary and equity • Work remotely • Covered health, dental, and vision insurance • Regular team events and off-sites • Unlimited PTO and generous paid parental leave