Staff Python Engineer (Django) Job at Privy, Denver, CO

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  • Privy
  • Denver, CO

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role

We're seeking a hands-on Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for our Django-based SMS marketing platform. This is a critical role focused on maintaining stability while evolving a high-volume system. This position will build trust as a technical expert while helping the team make great decisions to improve and scale messaging infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead technical initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability for our high-volume SMS platform
  • Maintain and simplify distributed system for segmenting and delivering SMS messages at high volume
  • Create technical documentation, runbooks, and development tooling to reduce knowledge siloing and improve developer experience
  • Provide architectural and system design direction for new capabilities and scaling existing capabilities
  • Support engineers through hands-on technical mentorship while remaining actively involved in code development
  • Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to or lead incident response as necessary
  • Collaborate with Ruby/Rails engineering team leaders to establish engineering strategy

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on SaaS software development experience with at least 3+ years developing in Python/Django
  • Deep experience with message queuing systems (Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS, etc.), distributed systems, and both monolithic and service oriented architectures
  • Proven track record of improving legacy codebases and experience working with legacy Django systems - experience upgrading legacy Django systems is a plus
  • Strong systems design skills with experience building horizontally scalable architectures
  • Experience with SMS/telephony or email delivery systems - Twilio is a plus
  • Strong written communication skills and established habits communicating asynchronously and teaching through technical documentation
  • Have been in a Senior+ hands-on coding role in the last 2 years

Benefits

  • High autonomy with no career ceilings
  • Challenging and interesting work
  • Amazing colleagues
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Work remotely
  • Covered health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Regular team events and off-sites
  • Unlimited PTO and generous paid parental leave

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