Senior Backend Engineer – APIs, Data, Scale
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Senior Backend Engineer at Jellyfish focusing on scalable backend solutions and engineering data complexity. Collaborating with teams to enhance product features and support customer operations.
Responsibilities:
- Design, plan and implement key features as part of a highly effective development team
- Rapidly deliver value for our customers by pushing features to our AWS-hosted SaaS environment daily, with automated CI/CD pipelines
- Provide technical and product expertise within your team and across the organization
- Communicate effectively about project status and technical issues
- Participate in your team’s agile process and work to continually improve your team’s capabilities
- Provide support for production operations of the Jellyfish product
- Actively participate in a culture supportive of growth and inclusion on your team
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience building SaaS products with a focus on Back End development
- Strong skills in Python, and passion for building production software systems using Django
- Expert-level abilities in data modeling in relational database systems and experience with and interest in other database technologies such as columnar systems.
- Experience with scaling, performance, and benchmarking of APIs and data processing systems.
- Fluency with tools such as Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro and a track record of using them to build and ship fast.
- Have worked in or interested in a growth-stage startup
- Curiosity - great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing
- Love learning new things and teaching others what you know
- Strong communication skills
- Enjoyment of collaborative work
Benefits:
- Offers Equity















