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Jellyfish · 3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer - APIs, Data, and Scale

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$165K/yr - $235K/yr

10+ years exp

Jellyfish is focused on enhancing engineering operations by understanding team organization and work delivery. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to tackle complex challenges in data modeling and system design, building capabilities that accurately represent team configurations and improve engineering productivity.

AnalyticsInformation TechnologySoftware

No H1B

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

Qualification

PythonDjangoData modelingAPI scalingAWSCI/CD pipelinesCuriosityTeachingCommunicationCollaborative work

Required

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

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