Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the position

Saturn Technologies is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join their team in New York City. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, guiding app architecture, and leading the development of user-facing features. The ideal candidate will have extensive backend development experience and a strong understanding of modern web application best practices.

Responsibilities

• Working on a cross-functional team, utilizing extensive knowledge and experience in building complex applications.
• Collaborating with Product Managers and Designers from the beginning of projects to create user-friendly experiences.
• Communicating and managing relationships with client engineers on iOS and Web to ensure seamless integration.
• Promoting a disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team setting.
• Leading the development and ownership of large user-facing features/epics, from design to implementation and launch.
• Guiding the app architecture to align with industry best practices and engineering excellence.
• Playing a crucial role in elevating the team's technical skills and efficiency.
• Being hands-on, writing automated tests, and providing thorough feedback in code reviews.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant backend development experience
• Strong understanding of best practices for modern web apps, APIs, and microservices
• Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to mentor team-mates
• Experience working with and scaling relational databases such as Postgres or NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB
• Experience with concurrency theories and implementations

Nice-to-haves

• Python web development experience (FastAPI, Flask, Django, etc.)
• Experience scaling high-growth systems and diagnosing performance bottlenecks
• Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, ElastiCache)
• Experience working with and scaling multi-container Docker in production environments
• Experience working with background jobs (Celery with Redis, etc.)
• Experience working with real-time communication (websockets preferred)

Benefits

• Full benefits
• Stock options