Postscript · 3 months ago
Senior Backend Engineer, Data Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $200K/yr
5+ years expPostscript is a leading company in the ecommerce SMS marketing sector, dedicated to helping brands maximize their revenue through innovative solutions. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Data Platform team, where the role involves building and scaling foundational services, APIs, and data pipelines to support their product offerings.
AdvertisingE-CommerceEnterpriseSales AutomationSMS
Responsibilities
Design, develop, maintain, and scale the Data Platform team’s services and APIs
Build batch and streaming data pipelines
Act as tech lead for individual projects: write design docs, scope tasks, and delegate to other engineers
Maintain and enhance Postscript’s third-party integrations
Contribute to team planning and process improvement
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience writing and shipping production software in GoLang
Hands on python experience in production or non-production settings
Experience building and designing high-scale systems AWS with a broad variety of database technologies (RDBMS, OLAP, NoSQL, etc.)
Working knowledge of event-driven distributed systems, Kafka, distributed data processing technologies (Flink/Spark/etc)
Proven track record of success in remote startups, particularly in mid to late stage companies
Strong desire add new technologies to your toolkit
You thrive in ambiguity and love solving complex problems
Proven upward trajectory or history of promotions and success
Startup experience specifically at successful growth companies
Preferred
Terraform or IAC tools
Building and deploying applications on K8s
Experience building streaming and/or batch data pipelines and ETL
Benefits
Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
Flexible paid time off
Health, dental, vision insurance
Company
Postscript
Postscript is an SMS platform that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers through text message marketing.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$106.2MKey Investors
01 AdvisorsGreylockAccomplice
2022-06-15Series C· $65M
2021-03-03Series B· $35M
2019-12-04Seed· $4.5M
Leadership Team
Adam Turner
Co-Founder / CEO
Alex Beller
Co-Founder & President
Recent News
Greylock
2025-12-30
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