Senior Backend Engineer

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November 20

🌵 Arizona – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote

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🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🦞 Maine – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote ⚓ Rhode Island – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote 🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

💵 $160k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Electric

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IT Services • Tech Support • SaaS

Electric is a company that offers comprehensive IT management and support services. It provides a platform called the Electric IT Hub, which helps companies manage their IT environments with confidence and resolve IT support requests efficiently. Electric also offers services related to employee onboarding and termination, device management, and hardware services including procurement and shipping. In addition, Electric supports security controls and compliance, and integrates with third-party services to enhance its offerings.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

☁️ SaaS

💰 $23.4M Series D on 2022-03

📋 Description

• Work closely with product managers and designers to build backend systems that best support internal and external users • Build a technical infrastructure capable of supporting a rapidly expanding organization in terms of employees and users • Design and implement scalable APIs, services, and data models that power our customer-facing applications • Own the reliability, performance, and observability of backend systems in production • Design and build services using FastAPI/Pydantic, PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, Temporal.io for workflows, AWS services (RDS, S3, SQS, DynamoDB), Redis for caching, Datadog for observability, and Terraform for infrastructure as code • Integrate with third-party services and APIs to deliver comprehensive solutions • Enable other developers by seeking out and implementing improvements to backend development experience, tooling, and processes • Participate in technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team and across engineering • Mentor and pair with other developers to instill a growth mindset and raise the technical bar • Set and uphold software guidelines and methodologies as agreed on by the team • Lead by example with a focus on craftsmanship, reliability, and quality • Employ lean principles during the development process such as: • - Eliminate waste • - Build quality in • - Create knowledge • - Defer commitment • - Deliver fast • - Respect people • - Optimize the whole

🎯 Requirements

• BA/BS/BE degree in Computer Science/Engineering or comparable experience • 5+ years of backend software development experience and the ability to learn quickly • Prior startup experience or have faced large scaling challenges • Strong Python experience with modern async/await patterns, FastAPI/Starlette, typing and Pydantic • Expertise with PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy (both sync and async), and Alembic migrations • Advanced knowledge of AWS services including RDS, S3, SQS, ECS, and IAM fundamentals • Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform • Experience with background processing, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows • Proficiency with observability and monitoring: distributed tracing (ddtrace), structured logging (structlog), and metrics/alerting (Datadog) • Strong testing mindset with pytest, fixtures/mocking, and async test patterns; familiarity with property-based testing (Hypothesis) is a plus • Experience with agile processes and a passion for automated testing and continuous delivery • A focus on writing maintainable, performant, and well-documented code • A healthy balance of creativity and skepticism and a proven track record of solving difficult problems

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible and generous PTO • Mental Wellness Days • Volunteer Days • Medical, Vision, Dental, and Orthodontia Coverage • 401k • ESOP (Employee Stock Option Program) • Kindbody Membership for Family Planning • Pre-taxed Commuter Benefits • Generous Parental Leave • Paid medical, family, and military leave • Short and Long Term Disability • Employee Assistance Programs • Life Insurance funded by Electric • Training and career growth • Awesome team building events!