Backend Engineer (Python)

Posted by Matthew

Company Details

UpContent

Pittsburgh

Remote Ok

FTE only

Description

Title: Backend Engineer

Experience Levels Considered: Experienced, Senior, Junior with Experience, Lead/Principle

Compensation: $60k-$105k salary, Equity Options, Health, Dental, Vision

Prioritized Technical Skills: Python, Data Science, Web Scraping, Machine Learning, Serverless, Containers

Location: Pittsburgh/Remote (Remote w/ Office, ability to be in office at least once per week a major plus)

UpContent is growing! We’ve found our market and we’re ready to take our platform to the next level. To help us get there, we’re looking for an empathetic, experienced, and growth-oriented Backend Engineer to take a leading role in improving our existing Python backend. If you’re an eager self-starter, excellent communicator, and passionate relationship-builder, you just might be our person.

About UpContent

It’s our mission to help marketing, HR, and sales professionals deepen relationships and build trust with their audiences by serving as their “air traffic control” for third-party content. Our platform, UpContent, helps users discover, collaborate on, and distribute this content for use on social media, an email newsletter, a website, or even their company’s digital signage systems. Our integrations and partnerships with other content marketing tools like Hootsuite, Buffer, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Shutterstock, Wix, and more, make curation even more streamlined and accessible.

Our values of trust and relationships carry through to how we “get things done”. We believe you work best when well rested and living a whole life and while we require some time flexibility as a startup, we believe that goes both ways and offer flexible hours, unlimited vacation (3-5 weeks suggested), and remote work.

About You

  • You enjoy a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in the technical direction of the backend architecture.
  • You thrive working both independently and as part of a team.
  • You’re able to see the big picture while managing the small details that make the big stuff possible.
  • You are comfortable taking initiative and finding new, creative ways to solve problems or delight the customer.
  • You’re always learning and growing and experimenting with new tools and processes.
  • You appreciate constructive feedback and aren’t afraid to ask questions.
  • You are kind and empathetic.

Ideal candidates should be

  • Fluent in Python and immediately able to contribute to our Python backend code
  • Either experienced or strongly interested in data science, machine learning, and web scraping
  • Either experienced or reasonably interested in containers and serverless architecture Ready to take a significant role in how we scale UpContent’s architecture and improve our algorithms.
  • Have solid communication skills and be able to manage work independently
  • Excited about being part of a growing start-up and having an “owner mentality” that cares about the growth of the business as if it was yours
  • Self motivated and responsive to the needs of the team
  • Comfortable working with integration partners and customers on occasion

We think that most engineers take at least a year of professional or grad level academic experience to attain the skills we’re looking for.

Bonus Points

  • You have experience in working in a startup environment.
  • You aren’t afraid to experiment with outside-of-the-box ideas and strategies.
  • You have an understanding, and appreciation, of the problem we are working to solve.
  • Comfortable mentoring and onboarding developers as we grow (necessary for senior/lead)

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