Senior - Staff Software Engineer (Backend or Full-stack)

About this role

Paperless Post is seeking an experienced (7-17 years of experience) backend or full-stack software engineer to help build and evolve the collection of services that power our best-in-class discovery and events management platform which powers experiences for a complex network of over 220 million hosts and receivers. As a key member of our team, you’ll help craft new core services and iterate on existing ones. You’ll work on all parts of the development cycle and in many different areas of code as part of a deeply collaborative team with a robust development process.

Beyond technical expertise, we are looking for someone who demonstrates strong leadership behaviors, shows initiative, is accountable for quality and delivery, models our values through their actions, and contributes to a positive, collaborative engineering culture.

A little bit about us

The PP Engineering team, a highly collaborative group of developers and technologists, is charged with building and refining a consumer-facing product that millions of people interact with each month. The team you’ll be joining focuses on the highest priority projects across our product domains and is made up of engineers, product managers, QA, and product designers. We prioritize creativity and continuing education, and our ongoing commitment to quality code shows in our pragmatic but brave approach to technology.

You will:

• Design and develop maintainable, reliable, and scalable enterprise-level, services-based software.
• Drive architectural decisions, service design standards, and long-term technical strategies appropriate for your level.
• Define design patterns that ensure performance, scalability, operability, and maintainability and hold feature teams accountable to their correct use.
• Investigate and implement scalable and sound service-oriented architectures that enable cross-functional teams to build, release, experiment iteratively, and detect and resolve production issues quickly.
• Make sound...