Senior Backend Engineer

Who is Recruiting from Scratch :

Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.

Our client is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer. This is a remote job, but preferred to be in San Francisco 3 times a week.

Candidate requirements

• 1 - 10 years of experience software engineering & data platform architecture and engineering skills. We just want really bright engineers, and believe they can learn any new tech stack in a week.

Nice-to-haves

• Solid understanding of current and future cloud offerings and risks related to security, privacy, data ingestion, processing, and storage.
• Strong experience with Python beyond scripting (most of our Backend is written in Python).
• Previous experience at a top-tier tech company or startup.
• CS degree from a top university.
• Strong AWS development experience. Not "just" setting up infra, but also writing apps/services using the infra.
• Experience running production code in cloud environments, solving problems at scale.
• Deep understanding of both open-source libraries, frameworks, and systems, and experience deciding when to build from scratch vs use existing solutions.
• Strong software engineering & data platform architecture and engineering skills. You have likely built significant backend distributed systems.
• Able to work in-office with the team in San Francisco at least 3 days a week.

Salary: 140,000 - 200,000 + equity