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$175,000 – $205,000
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What this role is
Postscript is seeking a senior fullstack engineer to build and scale the data-intensive backend systems, APIs, and pipelines that power their AI-driven SMS marketing platform for e-commerce. This role emphasizes hands-on ownership of distributed systems, active use of AI coding tools as a core practice, and cross-functional collaboration in a fully remote environment.
Our summary, not Postscript’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache Flink
- Apache Kafka
- Datadog
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Python
- React
- REST APIs
- Rust
- SPARK
- SQL
- Terraform
- TypeScript
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What they ask for
Required
- 6+ years building large-scale data-intensive backend systems and APIs
- Active daily user of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent)
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, React, or TypeScript
- Working knowledge of event-driven distributed systems and Kafka
- Experience with distributed data processing technologies (Flink/Spark/etc)
- Experience growing systems under production customer load
- Experience building and designing high-scale systems on AWS with multiple database technologies
- Strong SQL skills for transactional and analytical workloads
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and observability tooling (Datadog, Signoz, or comparable)
- Clear, direct communication and proactive cross-functional collaboration
- Understanding of technical tradeoffs informed by engineering best practices and business priorities
Nice to have
- Experience scaling systems from early days to multi-terabyte stage
- Experience balancing 0-to-1 initiatives with improvements to complex existing systems
- Expertise in relational data modeling and index strategy design