Senior Software Engineer, Back End
Reflex
Senior Software Engineer, Back End
Austin, TX
About The Role
We are reimagining how people work in retail — that means we are building products that impact over 1/4 of all US workers. We strive to earn their trust, provide them flexible ways of working, and continue to make people excited about their role in one of the largest industries in America.
This is where you come in. As a Back End engineer, your primary responsibility is to design and build the backend infrastructure used by retailers, workers, and the operations infrastructure that connects them.
What You'll Achieve
- You'll work closely with our Head of Product and Head of Engineering to design and build new features for the Reflex platform
- You'll collaborate with all functions of the business to validate designs and features
- You'll have ownership in implementing Django applications to support Retailers, Workers, and the Operations team
- You’ll participate in release management and production support of the application suite
- Your contributions will be meaningful, valuable, and of high impact
- You’ll be a member of a passionate and highly skilled engineering team
About You
Technical Experience
- Strong proficiency in Python (6+ years)
- Proficient in designing and implementing relational databases ( 5+ years)
- Proficient in designing and implementing Web APIs (5+ years)
- Experience with Django or similar python based web frameworks (3+ years)
- Familiarity with database optimization and performance tuning techniques
Cloud Experience
- Deploying, scaling, and managing applications on Heroku and/or AWS (EC2, Lambda, Se, RDS, CloudFormation)
- Familiarity with setting up CI/CD pipelines on platforms like GitHub Actions
Security & Monitoring
- Understanding of application development practices (e.g. OWASP Top 10)
- Experience implementing SSO
- Experience defining and instrumenting application health and performance monitoring tools and strategies
Ability to scale
- Experience scaling software from MVP to expanded use.
Education
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Thoughtful problem solver: You're a superstar at getting to the bottom of tricky problems. You are comfortable working through hard challenges, both alone and with others.
- Pragmatic and business-oriented: "Business impact" isn't just a fancy phrase you hear team members talk about. You embrace the objective of the company, make tradeoffs relentlessly, and prioritize projects better than anyone.
- Put users first: You think critically about the implications of what you build and how it shapes people's lives.
- Excellent communicator: You communicate ideas clearly and engage thoughtfully with others.
Nice to Haves
- Experience in React, ReactNative, GraphQL
- You have worked in an early stage startup
- You have worked in retail — or know someone that has
- You have practical experience developing software for the gig economy
Our customers and users come from all walks of life, and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. If you share our values and our enthusiasm to improve retail, you'll find a home here at Reflex. Reflex is proud to value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.