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Trusted by more than 18,000 Shopify and Shopify Plus stores—like Brooklinen, Ruggable, True Classic and Dr. Squatch—Postscript gives ecommerce brands the tools they need to run a world-class SMS marketing program.
If you want to know about the requirements for this role, read on for all the relevant information.
We’re on a mission to make SMS the number-one revenue channel for ecommerce merchants by delivering an easy-to-use platform where they can grow their subscriber list, develop and test their messaging strategy, deliver excellent customer service, and drive sales and loyalty—all in one place. We believe SMS is the most important marketing and sales channel of the decade, and that vision drives everything we do.
Postscript was founded in 2018 as a 100% remote organization. With more than 250 employees (and counting!), we’re backed by Greylock, Y Combinator, and other top investors.
As a Staff Engineer for the Core Platform / Messaging Platform team at Postscript, you will bring your passion for maximizing scalability to the task of leading the platform team’s next gen architecture – from high level design to implementing common core components for the platform. Your work will directly contribute to building the fastest, most reliable, and functionally rich messaging platform for ecommerce on the market. You will be given the autonomy to grow to your full potential and your work will directly impact our customers and Postscript’s bottom line.
The Staff role at Postscript is one of deep technical ownership. You will have a profound impact on the trajectory of the engineering org and help uplevel the wider engineering org through code contributions, critical leadership, mentorship, and decision-making. As a leader of engineers you will guide the platform in weighing technical constraints and business priorities to make the necessary trade-offs to deliver customer value.
Our backend stack is a mixture of Go microservices with Kafka, Mongo, Postgres, redshift and a variety of other technologies, as well as some code that remains in our original monolithic architecture built on postgres and python.
This is a fully remote position.
Primary Duties
- Architect, build, and maintain the core infrastructure across the platforms – messaging, data, and workflow.
- Maintain and create REST and gRPC APIs for external and internal customers.
- Define contracts between the platforms and enforce consistency in coding and data.
- Identify bottlenecks and points of scale and make recommendations on how to maximize throughput and efficiency, then lead the team to implement.
- Work closely with the Director of Engineering to create and evolve a technical strategy that brings Postscript to the forefront of the technical space we are in.
- Take ownership and get creative with your solutions, dive into bold ideas in order to achieve outstanding results.
- Contribute to the health of the teams you mentor through honest and direct feedback as we iterate and improve our technology.
- Guide your team to make optimal technical and infrastructure decisions, using POCs and new technologies to drive change.
- Mentor other engineers on best practices, standards, and learning opportunities.
- Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management.
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Salary : $200,000 - $230,000
