Friday, November 22, 2024

Distant Senior/Employees Software program Engineer – Backend/Python

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We’re on the lookout for US-based Senior and Employees stage engineers to affix our group. Base wage vary is $140,000 to $200,000. These are absolutely distant positions. Learn on to be taught extra!

About Us

At Shut, we’re constructing the gross sales communication platform of the long run. With our roots because the very first gross sales CRM to incorporate built-in calling, we’re main the business towards eliminating handbook processes and serving to firms to shut extra offers (sooner). Since our founding in 2013, we have grown to turn into a worthwhile, 100% globally distributed group of ~70 high-performing, pleased folks which are devoted to constructing a product our prospects love.
Our backend tech stack presently consists primarily of Python Flask internet apps with our TaskTiger scheduler dealing with most of the backend asynchronous process processing chores. Our information shops embody MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS utilizing a mix of managed providers like EKS, MSK, RDS and ElasticCache and non-managed providers operating on EC2 situations. All of our compute runs by means of CI/CD pipelines that construct Docker photos, run automated checks and deploy to our Kubernetes clusters. Our backend primarily serves a well-documented public API that our front-end JavaScript app consumes. Our infrastructure is closely automated utilizing Terraform, Ansible and different AWS instruments.

About You

We’re on the lookout for excessive reaching full-time Software program Engineers to affix our engineering group. Somebody who has curiosity and a very good understanding in internet applied sciences and desires to assist design, implement, launch, and scale main techniques and user-facing options.

You are comfy working in a fast-paced setting with a small and proficient group the place you are supported in your efforts to develop professionally. You are in a position to handle your time properly, talk successfully and collaborate in a totally distributed group.

  • Senior/Employees stage candidates ought to have 5+ years expertise constructing fashionable back-end techniques. Mid-level candidates ought to have ~3 years of comparable expertise and be desirous to stage up with the proper alternative.
  • Python expertise is most well-liked however expertise in different languages is suitable in case you have a need to work with Python.
  • You could have hands-on manufacturing expertise working with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or comparable information shops. 
  • You could have expertise designing, scaling, debugging, and optimizing techniques to make them quick and dependable. 
  • You could have participated in code evaluations and supplied general code high quality strategies to assist keep the construction and high quality of the codebase. 
  • You care concerning the craftsmanship of the code and techniques you produce.
  • Situated within the USA. Not within the US? Take a look at this job submit for our non-US BE place.


Bonus level in case you have…

  • Contributed open supply code associated to our tech stack
  • Led small venture groups constructing and launching options
  • Constructed B2B SaaS merchandise
  • Labored with advanced architectures that assist a number of APIs (e.g. REST, GQL, WebSockets) in addition to async process and occasion processing frameworks


Come assist us with initiatives like…

  • Conceiving, designing, constructing, and launching new user-facing options
  • Bettering the efficiency and scalability of our GraphQL andREST API.
  • Bettering how we sync tens of millions of gross sales emails and calendar occasions every month
  • Working with Twilio’s API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to enhance our calling options
  • Constructing user-facing analytics options that present actionable insights based mostly on gross sales exercise information
  • Bettering our Elastic search-backed highly effective search options
  • Bettering our inner messaging infrastructure utilizing streaming applied sciences like Kafka and Redis 
  • Constructing new and enhancing current integrations with different SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite, Zapier, and Internet Conferencing suppliers


Why work with us?

  • Tradition video 💚
  • 100% distant firm (we consider in belief and autonomy)
  • Select between working 5 days/wk (normal full-time) or 4 days/wk @ 80% pay
  • Annual group retreats ✈️
  • Quarterly digital summits
  • 5 weeks PTO + Winter Vacation Break
  • 2 extra PTO days yearly with the corporate
  • 1 month paid sabbatical each 5 years
  • Paid parental depart
  • Medical, Dental, Imaginative and prescient with HSA possibility (US residents)
  • 401k matching at 6% (US residents)
  • Dependent care FSA (US residents)
  • Contributor to Stripe’s local weather initiative 🌍❤️ 
  • Our story and group 🚀


Our Values

  • Construct a home you need to reside in — Study long-term pondering and motion
  • No BS — Observe transparency and honesty, particularly when it’s onerous
  • Spend money on one another — Construct profitable relationships together with your coworkers and prospects 
  • Self-discipline equals freedom — Preserve your phrase to your self and others
  • Attempt for greatness — Continually problem your self and others 


How We Work Collectively

  • Productiveness, High quality & Impression: We don’t observe hours. We belief you’re an grownup and know finest find out how to prioritize, meet your targets and contribute at a excessive stage. 
  • Asynchronous communication & collaboration: We’ve got group members all around the world. We don’t count on anybody to work untraditional hours, meaning our default is async. Most groups have 2-5 hours of inner conferences weekly. 
  • Appreciation for Deep Work: *Throughout your regular work day, not after a day of conferences*. 
  • Autonomy & Freedom: Create a piece setting that’s sustainable for you. We place a excessive quantity of belief and accountability with our group members from the beginning. 

At Shut, everybody has a voice. We encourage transparency and observe a mature strategy to the work-place. Generally, we don’t have strict insurance policies, we’ve got pointers. Work/Life concord is a vital a part of our enterprise – we consider you deliver your finest to work if you observe self-care (no matter that appears like for you).  

We come from 20+ international locations situated in 5 of the 7 continents. We’re a group of proficient people, wealthy in numerous backgrounds, existence, and cultures. Yearly we meet up someplace all over the world to spend time with each other. These gatherings are a possibility to strengthen the relationships inside our world group.

Our group is rising in additional methods than one – in the previous few years, we have launched 24 infants (and counting!). Unanimously, our favourite and most impactful worth is “Construct a home you need to reside in.” We attempt to make choices which are genuine for our folks and assist our prospects turn into extra profitable. 

Our software course of was designed to advertise equitable and unbiased hiring practices. We ask a small sequence of questions which are much like what can be requested within the first interview. This helps us be taught extra about you proper from the beginning so please make sure to reply every query thoughtfully. Every software will obtain two screens by two completely different reviewers. No matter match, you’ll hear again from us letting you understand if we’ll be shifting ahead.

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