# Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Deliverability

Hiring organization: [Front](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/front)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/8bd7e623-37f5-4001-947b-da9a86655450

Listed on Front's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 177900 – 203700 USD per year

## Summary

Front seeks an experienced backend engineer to lead technical strategy and ownership of high-volume email delivery infrastructure that processes tens of millions of messages daily. This role combines system architecture and hands-on development for a critical platform serving thousands of B2B companies.

_Our summary, not Front's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, DNS, Python, Ruby, TypeScript

## Required

- 5+ years professional software engineering experience
- Experience building and operating distributed backend systems at scale
- Ownership of complex systems and architectural decision-making
- Collaborative approach to engineering and cross-team work
- On-call responsibilities and strong sense of system reliability ownership
- Product mindset with focus on scalability and extensibility
- Fluency in a dynamic language like JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Ruby
- Track record of shipping complex projects with high ambiguity
- Experience with asynchronous work queues, high-volume storage, or high-throughput systems
- Pragmatic engineering judgment balancing trade-offs
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, collaborative, high-growth environment

## Nice to have

- Prior B2B SaaS or customer communications company experience
- High-volume email sending experience (millions of messages daily)
- DNS infrastructure experience
- AWS deployment and operations experience
- Deep email protocol and RFC knowledge
- Anti-spam infrastructure experience
- Integration work with SendGrid, Mailgun, Mandrill, or SparkPost
- Gmail or Office 365 API experience
- Kafka experience

Apply on Front's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/frontcareers/5fc319f6-b860-466e-aea5-fe222003ee8b/application