Senior Software Engineer
Electric- Location
- Arizona · California · Colorado +21
- Workplace
- Remote
- Employment
- Full Time
- Salary
- —
Posted 3mo ago
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Responsibilities
- Build market-leading product with product managers and engineers
- Build technical foundation for platform scaling
- Design and implement scalable APIs, services, and data models
- Own reliability, performance, and observability of backend systems
- Design, build, and operate scalable backend services
- Build and maintain performant, accessible frontend applications
- Leverage AI-native development practices
- Integrate with third-party services and APIs
- Champion developer experience by improving tooling, CI/CD, testing, and workflows
- Participate in technical architecture discussions
- Mentor and pair with other developers
- Lead by example with focus on craftsmanship, reliability, and quality
Requirements
- BA/BS/BE degree in Computer Science/Engineering or comparable experience
- 8+ years of backend software development experience
- Experience building products in a startup or other high-growth environment
- Proven experience as a technical leader
- Deep expertise in modern Python, including async/await, type-safe development, Pydantic, API design, testing, and building production-grade distributed systems
- Experience building scalable, maintainable frontend applications using React and Typescript
- 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 using AI-assisted development tools or enthusiasm for adopting AI-native engineering workflows
- Proficiency with observability and monitoring
- A healthy balance of creativity and practicality
- Proven track record of timely delivery
Preferred
- Experience building systems in business domains such as IT management, e-commerce, HCM, or B2B SaaS
Skills
- Python
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- SQLAlchemy
- Temporal
- Redis
- AWS
- RDS
- S3
- SQS
- DynamoDB
- Terraform
- React
- TypeScript
- Claude Code
- Alembic
- ECS
- IAM
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