Senior Backend Engineer - Python / Django

Cast And Crew - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - New York, NY

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About the position

The Senior Backend Engineer at Backstage will play a crucial role in developing and enhancing product features for a leading talent marketplace in the entertainment industry. This position involves working with a team of engineers to design, build, and maintain efficient Python code while collaborating with various departments to ensure successful product delivery. The role emphasizes autonomy, continuous learning, and a commitment to delivering value to customers through innovative technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, marketing, business intelligence, and design teams to develop new product features and enhancements
• Design engineering plans to meet the requirements of the product or goal
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code
• Contribute to and influence the overall backend architecture decisions
• Work closely with product, marketing, and customer service to translate customer feedback into successful features and tools
• Collaborate with backend engineers outside your feature team to maintain shared code and infrastructure
• Coordinate with frontend engineers to provide a cohesive experience
• Use both technical and relational skills to lead large scale projects to completion
• Collaborate, mentor, and learn with a high-performing team of engineers

Requirements

• Proven experience building a major product or feature from scratch at scale for a large public facing web application
• Advanced proficiency with Python and Django
• Solid database skills in a relational database (i.e., PostgresSQL, MySQL, etc.)
• Experience with Elasticsearch a plus
• Experience in developing RESTful APIs
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Experience incrementally rolling out new features, components or refactors without blocking the rest of the team, and iterating upon and maintaining live products
• Strong project management skills; able to organize, adhere to process, and execute projects across disciplines and by deadline
• Excellent communication skills; you can articulate clearly, thoroughly, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortability with the entire development life cycle (inception to release) in an Agile environment
• Collaborative, engaged, and adaptable; you are comfortable joining a team with a large, mature codebase with established engineering processes
• Flexible and proactive, you're able to shift gears quickly in a fast-paced environment

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with Javascript/React a plus

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• PTO
• Health and wellness programs
• Employee discounts