Senior Backend Engineer, Data Platform

About Postscript

Trusted by more than 18,000 Shopify and Shopify Plus stores—like Brooklinen, Ruggable, True Classic and Dr. Squatch—Postscript gives ecommerce brands the tools they need to run a world-class SMS marketing program. We’re on a mission to make SMS the number-one revenue channel for ecommerce merchants by delivering an easy-to-use platform where they can grow their subscriber list, develop and test their messaging strategy, deliver excellent customer service, and drive sales and loyalty—all in one place. We believe SMS is the most important marketing and sales channel of the decade, and that vision drives everything we do.

Postscript is redefining marketing for ecommerce companies. By introducing SMS as an entirely new channel for ecommerce stores to engage, retain, and convert their customer base, brands are seeing huge ROI with Postscript. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator and other top investors, Postscript is growing fast and looking for remarkable people to help build a world class organization.

Postscript was founded in 2018 as a 100% remote organization. With more than 250 employees (and counting!), we’re backed by Greylock, Y Combinator, and other top investors.

Job Description: Senior Backend Engineer, Data Platform

We are looking for a polyglot Senior Backend Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You’ll help build and scale the foundational services, APIs, and pipelines that power the Postscript product. This role blends strong backend engineering skills with a deep appreciation for data intensive systems, performance, and reliability. You’ll collaborate closely with other software engineers, data engineers, and product to help e-commerce marketers maximize their revenue with best-in-class targeting and context driven AI.

Primary Duties

• 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

What We’ll Love About You

• 6+ 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 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

Nice to Have

• Terraform or IAC tools
• Building and deploying applications on K8s
• Experience building streaming and/or batch data pipelines and ETL

What You’ll Love About Us

• Salary range of USD $170-200k base plus significant equity (we do not have geo based salaries)
• High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!
• Work from home (or wherever)
• Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, vision insurance

Hiring Process

• Intro Call: You’ll hop on a quick call with the Recruiter so we can get to know you better — and you can learn a little more about the role and Postscript.
• Homework Assignment: We will send over an exercise that challenges you to solve a problem & come up with a creative solution, or outline how you've solved a problem in the past. Get a feel for what you’ll be doing on a daily basis!
• Day 1 Interviews:
  • Hiring Manager Intro: You’ll hop on a quick call with the Hiring Manager so your future Manager can get to know you better — This is a great time to learn more about the team & position.
  • Technical Coding I