Faraway Senior/Workforce Instrument Engineer – Backend/Python

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We’re on the lookout for US-based Senior and Workforce point engineers to sign up for our staff. Base wage vary is $140,000 to $200,000. Those are absolutely faraway positions. Learn on to be informed extra!

About Us

At Shut, we are development the gross sales communique platform of the long run. With our roots as the first actual gross sales CRM to incorporate integrated calling, we are main the business towards getting rid of guide processes and serving to firms to near extra offers (quicker). Since our founding in 2013, we’ve got grown to transform a successful, 100% globally disbursed staff of ~70 high-performing, satisfied other people which can be devoted to development a product our consumers love.
Our backend tech stack lately is composed essentially of Python Flask internet apps with our TaskTiger scheduler dealing with most of the backend asynchronous process processing chores. Our information shops come with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS the usage of a mixture of controlled products and services like EKS, MSK, RDS and ElasticCache and non-managed products and services working on EC2 cases. All of our compute runs via CI/CD pipelines that construct Docker photographs, run automatic checks and deploy to our Kubernetes clusters. Our backend essentially serves a well-documented public API that our front-end JavaScript app consumes. Our infrastructure is closely automatic the usage of Terraform, Ansible and different AWS equipment.

About You

We’re on the lookout for excessive reaching full-time Instrument Engineers to sign up for our engineering staff. Anyone who has pastime and a just right working out in internet applied sciences and desires to assist design, enforce, release, and scale primary methods and user-facing options.

You might be comfy operating in a fast moving atmosphere with a small and gifted staff the place you are supported to your efforts to develop professionally. You are able to regulate your time properly, keep in touch successfully and collaborate in an absolutely disbursed staff.

  • Senior/Workforce point applicants will have to have 5+ years revel in development fashionable back-end methods. Mid-level applicants will have to have ~3 years of identical revel in and be desperate to point up with the best alternative.
  • Python revel in is most popular however revel in in different languages is appropriate if in case you have a need to paintings with Python.
  • You’ve gotten hands-on manufacturing revel in operating with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or identical information shops. 
  • You’ve gotten revel in designing, scaling, debugging, and optimizing methods to lead them to speedy and dependable. 
  • You’ve gotten participated in code opinions and supplied general code high quality tips to assist take care of the construction and high quality of the codebase. 
  • You care in regards to the craftsmanship of the code and methods you produce.
  • Positioned in the US. Now not in the United States? Take a look at this task put up for our non-US BE place.


Bonus level if in case you have…

  • Contributed open supply code associated with our tech stack
  • Led small venture groups development and launching options
  • Constructed B2B SaaS merchandise
  • Labored with complicated architectures that toughen a couple of APIs (e.g. REST, GQL, WebSockets) in addition to async process and tournament processing frameworks


Come assist us with tasks like…

  • Conceiving, designing, development, and launching new user-facing options
  • Bettering the efficiency and scalability of our GraphQL andREST API.
  • Bettering how we sync hundreds of thousands of gross sales emails and calendar occasions every month
  • Running with Twilio’s API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to give a boost to our calling options
  • Development user-facing analytics options that supply actionable insights in line with gross sales task information
  • Bettering our Elastic search-backed robust seek options
  • Bettering our inner messaging infrastructure the usage of streaming applied sciences like Kafka and Redis 
  • Development new and adorning current integrations with different SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite, Zapier, and Internet Conferencing suppliers


Why paintings with us?

  • Tradition video ????
  • 100% faraway corporate (we imagine in agree with and autonomy)
  • Make a choice from operating 5 days/wk (usual full-time) or 4 days/wk @ 80% pay
  • Annual staff retreats ✈️
  • Quarterly digital summits
  • 5 weeks PTO + Iciness Vacation Wreck
  • 2 further PTO days yearly with the corporate
  • 1 month paid sabbatical each 5 years
  • Paid parental depart
  • Clinical, Dental, Imaginative and prescient with HSA choice (US citizens)
  • 401k matching at 6% (US citizens)
  • Dependent care FSA (US citizens)
  • Contributor to Stripe’s local weather initiative ????❤️ 
  • Our tale and staff ????


Our Values

  • Construct a area you wish to have to are living in — Read about long-term pondering and motion
  • No BS — Observe transparency and honesty, particularly when it’s exhausting
  • Spend money on every different — Construct a hit relationships along with your coworkers and consumers 
  • Self-discipline equals freedom — Stay your phrase to your self and others
  • Try for greatness — Repeatedly problem your self and others 


How We Paintings In combination

  • Productiveness, High quality & Affect: We don’t monitor hours. We agree with you’re an grownup and know perfect easy methods to prioritize, meet your objectives and give a contribution at a excessive point. 
  • Asynchronous communique & collaboration: We’ve staff participants everywhere the arena. We don’t be expecting somebody to paintings untraditional hours, that implies our default is async. Maximum groups have 2-5 hours of inner conferences weekly. 
  • Appreciation for Deep Paintings: *All over your standard paintings day, no longer after an afternoon of conferences*. 
  • Autonomy & Freedom: Create a piece atmosphere this is sustainable for you. We position a excessive quantity of agree with and duty with our staff participants from the beginning. 

At Shut, everybody has a voice. We inspire transparency and apply a mature option to the work-place. Basically, we don’t have strict insurance policies, we now have tips. Paintings/Existence team spirit is the most important a part of our trade – we imagine you convey your perfect to paintings whilst you apply self-care (no matter that appears like for you).  

We come from 20+ nations situated in 5 of the 7 continents. We’re a number of gifted people, wealthy in numerous backgrounds, existence, and cultures. Once a year we join up someplace around the globe to spend time with one some other. Those gatherings are a chance to improve the relationships inside of our international neighborhood.

Our staff is rising in additional tactics than one – in the previous couple of years, we’ve got introduced 24 small children (and counting!). Unanimously, our favourite and maximum impactful worth is “Construct a area you wish to have to are living in.” We try to make selections which can be original for our other people and assist our consumers transform extra a hit. 

Our software procedure was once designed to advertise equitable and independent hiring practices. We ask a small collection of questions which can be very similar to what can be requested within the first interview. This is helping us be told extra about you proper from the beginning so please be sure you solution every query thoughtfully. Every software will obtain two displays via two other reviewers. Irrespective of are compatible, you’ll pay attention again from us letting you realize if we will be shifting ahead.

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