[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Optery, Inc.

Role Description

Optery helps people get their personal data off broker sites. We're a fully remote team, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer who'll work directly with the founders on product and technical direction. This position is open to candidates based in Latin America.

The role is backend-focused: Python and Django, with light frontend work when it makes sense (HTMX, the occasional React component). You own features start to finish, including the unglamorous part where you make sure the thing works in production a week after it ships.

What you'd work on in your first quarter:

• Writing code in our Django backend, which powers both the consumer dashboard and the B2B platform.
• New features for the APIs that power our consumer dashboard and customer reporting.
• Performance and reliability work in our Celery and RabbitMQ pipelines.
• Integrations with third-party services like payment providers and identity providers (Stripe, WorkOS SSO).
• Code review, both giving and receiving, on a small backend team of other Senior Engineers.
• Picking up real work in your first week.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building production web applications.
• 3+ years with Python and Django.
• Working knowledge of CS fundamentals: data structures, concurrency, SQL, system design.
• Strong written communication; comfortable working async across time zones.
• Self-direction and follow-through.

Requirements

• Strong plus:
• DRF and/or django-ninja.
• Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis in production.
• Postgres tuning and query analysis.
• Kubernetes and AWS.
• Stripe, identity providers, or other third-party API integrations.
• HTMX, React, or both.
• Background in consumer privacy or adjacent industries.
• Experience using AI coding assistants like Claude Code as part of normal day-to-day work.

Benefits

• Ownership of features and responsibility for their performance in production.
• Async-first work environment with a focus on clear communication.
• Real-time collaboration with overlapping working hours with US time zones.

Equal Opportunity

Optery values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.