Senior Backend Engineer (Python + Django)

We’re seeking a highly knowledgeable and experienced Senior Backend Engineer who enjoys early stage environments that provide freedom to move fast and ship new customer\-facing products and features at high velocity. You’ll work closely with the founders of the company and have a high degree of influence and input into the direction of the product and company. The right candidate will have a high degree of versatility and excels at creating software at all layers of web application platforms. The role requires outstanding communication and customer empathy skills. Since we are a remote first company, you will simultaneously need to be able to collaborate well, and be self\-directed and work independently. **About** The ideal person will be passionate about building consumer data privacy software, and will have experience across most of these areas: * Python / Django * Django\-rest\-framework * Writing tests * Asynchronous jobs execution / event brokers (Celery / RabbitMQ / Redis) * Databases \- Postgres, SQL, and NoSQL (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra) * User data security best practices * Designing core, backend software components * Implementing integrations with third\-party APIs * Diagnosing and addressing performance issues * Kubernetes, microservices, and resource management * AWS, GCP, Azure * HTML and Javascript experience Bonus if you have experience working in the consumer privacy or consumer data industries, React, HTMX and automation tools **Qualifications** * 5\+ years experience as a backend or full\-stack engineer building web applications * 3\+ years experience with Python and Django * Demonstrated knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals * Maturity, Self\-awareness, Empathy, a Strong work ethic, Attention to detail, and a Positive attitude * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience **LOCATION** Optery is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, but operates as a fully\-remote global team. While this is not necessarily a U.S.\-based position, working regular U.S. business hours, i.e. U.S. Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific time zones, is strongly preferred. **Compensation \& Benefits** * Competitive salary * Flexible vacation policy * Stipend for home office setup **EQUAL OPPORTUNITY** Optery values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. Optery does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non\-merit factor.