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5w PTO

  • Drive major technical initiatives from design through production, improving scalability, reliability, and correctness across critical systems.
  • Design and evolve backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, and data models that support complex business processes at scale.
  • Improve the operational foundations of the platform through better observability, testing, deployment safety, and incident reduction.

Python AWS Backend API Workflow

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Staff Engineer

Tem
$127,263–$127,263/yr
Global 5w PTO

  • Architect and deliver end-to-end systems, from internal developer tooling and platform services to scalable infrastructure components.
  • Improve and extend core platforms and developer experience tooling, making it easier for teams to build, test, deploy, and operate quality software.
  • Rapidly prototype and iterate on new workflows, automation, and platform capabilities that improve engineering productivity and operational excellence.

Tem is rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair. After extraordinary growth, they closed a $75 million Series B and are positioning themselves for global expansion, deeper product innovation and category leadership.

Canada

  • Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long scale and tie it to business-impacting projects.
  • Collaborate across product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and manage risks.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review standards and developing team talent.

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US

  • Lead the design and development of core platform features using Python and an API-first approach.
  • Build scalable, reliable backend services that power our applications, integrating seamlessly with a modern cloud-based architecture.
  • Collaborate with design and product teams to ensure that what we’re building is scalable, maintainable, and secure.

Agiloft is a global leader in data-first contract lifecycle management (CLM) software, helping organizations manage the end-to-end contract process. The company has a vibrant culture, supports multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), and values work/life balance.

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Europe

  • Be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team.
  • Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. The company is remote-first and values its employees by providing competitive benefits.

Latin America

  • Be a hands-on backend/API developer, leading the design & development of the client’s platform and systems integrations end-to-end.
  • Improve features, scalability, and reliability of the client platform by driving technical & process improvements.
  • Own the scoping, design, and delivery of new API features and subsystems, working independently with minimal direction.

Nortal shapes digital transformation, delivering complex solutions for global enterprises and public sector organizations. Today, they are at the forefront of an AI-driven transformation era, helping organizations turn data into real business value. They champion autonomy and open communication.

US Canada

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services that power core business workflows
  • Own projects end-to-end, from early design through production and iteration
  • Design APIs and data models that are clear, stable, and easy to work with

Short Story is an award-winning, technology-powered retailer dedicated to petite women 5'4" and under. As a fast-growing startup, they're revolutionizing retail with a data-driven learning system that leverages customer feedback to create tailored products.

Europe 5w PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power Chattermill’s core analytics platform.
  • Architect reliable, maintainable distributed systems and contribute to the evolution of backend service design and infrastructure.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of backend engineering workstreams, from technical scoping and architecture through to implementation, testing, observability, and production support.

Chattermill helps large successful brands like Uber, Amazon, and Wise put their customers at the centre of everything they do. Using best-in-class tech in a fast-evolving AI space, their Customer Experience Intelligence platform continuously analyses feedback to help clients identify what to do next.

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Europe North America 7w PTO

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Poolside aims to be the leading company in building a world where AI drives economically valuable work and scientific progress. They are a remote-first team across Europe and North America, gathering monthly in person for 3 days and twice a year for longer offsites.

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  • Translate product vision into production-ready code, working closely with Product Managers to turn business goals into actionable plans.
  • Help drive the transition to a self-service model, ensuring infrastructure remains performant across new global regions as the team and technology scales.
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$140,000–$190,000/yr
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Europe

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  • Own features end-to-end, from data modeling and backend logic to API design and integration layers.

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing, AI-first enterprise software company building a next-generation semantic intelligence layer for large-scale business data. They value transparency, ownership, and long-term impact.

$124,200–$198,700/yr
US

  • Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable, reliable platform services and shared libraries.
  • Contribute to platform and system architecture decisions with a focus on reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
  • Write high-quality, maintainable code and set a strong example of engineering best practices.

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US Unlimited PTO

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  • Own the technical direction of backend services and APIs, ensuring systems are secure, performant, and maintainable.

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. They're building the future of identity verification in the United States, replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate.

$190,800–$267,100/yr
US

  • Design and build backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and platform capabilities that improve developer workflows across Reddit.
  • Build scalable and reliable systems across both AI-powered developer workflows and the core non-AI systems engineers rely on every day.
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Unlimited PTO

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  • Design the systems that power every financial report and statement, from monthly reports to daily statements to custom client requests.
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