Lead Backend Engineer

Posted by Matthew

Company Details

UpContent

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Remote Ok

FTE only

Description

Experience Levels Considered: Senior, Lead

Compensation: $80k-$105k salary, $7.5-15k/yr Stock, insurance

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

Location: Pittsburgh/Remote (Remote w/ Office @ Code & Supply workspace, 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 the lead on 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 marketers 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, 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, 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
  • Comfortable mentoring and onboarding less experienced developers as we grow
  • Either experienced or strongly interested in data science and machine learning
  • Either experienced or reasonably interested in microservices, containers, and serverless architecture implemented on AWS including Lambda
  • Ready to take the lead on 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

We think that most engineers take at least 5 years to attain the skills we’re looking for, but making that a rule could cause us to miss someone awesome, maybe you. Ultimately our goal is that someone in this position can handle whole backend projects and improve our architecture relatively independently and mentor less experienced developers in the future if you’ve managed to achieve this in three years you should still apply.

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.

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