Senior Backend Engineer

Who We Are

Electric empowers small and medium-sized businesses with everything they need to take control of their IT and security environment.

Our best-in-class software provides SMBs with the insights and tools to make IT easy (even if you’re not an IT expert)! From mobile device management to employee onboarding and offboarding, SMBs can manage their IT with transparency and confidence in the Electric IT Hub.

Our employees are our most valuable asset. We have a people-first culture that prioritizes inclusion, support, growth, and development. You're not just an employee here; you're an important part of our community and our mission to make IT easy and reliable for SMBs.

If you want to bring your skills to a highly collaborative team, are passionate about pairing the creative with the analytical, have a flair for testing and experimentation, embody grit, determination, and curiosity, and want to be part of bringing Electric to SMBs across the US, read on.

Overview

Electric's Engineering team is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help build and scale our flagship SaaS application. This role will be part of a collaborative product team that takes ownership over a product domain to deliver features, maintain system reliability, and improve backend architecture in an effort to add value for our customers. The team leverages agile best practices to deliver on these goals.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, your responsibilities include designing and building robust backend services, maintaining high code quality and system reliability, collaborating with fellow engineers across disciplines, and participating in cross-team engineering discussions to help drive backend architecture and best practices.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in modern Python-based backend technologies and will know how to employ those technologies using lean development principles such as building with quality in mind, eliminating waste, respecting others, and delivering fast and often. The ideal candidate is a team player that works well in a collaborative environment. As a Senior Engineer, the candidate should serve as a role model and mentor to relatively junior engineers both on their team and across the larger engineering organization.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with product managers and designers to build backend systems that best support internal and external users

• Build a technical infrastructure capable of supporting a rapidly expanding organization in terms of employees and users

• Design and implement scalable APIs, services, and data models that power our customer-facing applications

• Own the reliability, performance, and observability of backend systems in production

• Design and build services using FastAPI/Pydantic, PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, Temporal.io for workflows, AWS services (RDS, S3, SQS, DynamoDB), Redis for caching, Datadog for observability, and Terraform for infrastructure as code

• Integrate with third-party services and APIs to deliver comprehensive solutions

• Enable other developers by seeking out and implementing improvements to backend development experience, tooling, and processes

• Participate in technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team and across engineering

• Mentor and pair with other developers to instill a growth mindset and raise the technical bar

• Set and uphold software guidelines and methodologies as agreed on by the team

• Lead by example with a focus on craftsmanship, reliability, and quality

• Employ lean principles during the development process such as:

  • Eliminate waste

  • Build quality in

  • Create knowledge

  • Defer commitment

  • Deliver fast

  • Respect people

  • Optimize the whole

Who you are

• BA/BS/BE degree in Computer Science/Engineering or comparable experience

• 5+ years of backend software development experience and the ability to learn quickly

• Prior startup experience or have faced large scaling challenges

• Strong Python experience with modern async/await patterns, FastAPI/Starlette, typing and Pydantic

• Expertise with PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy (both sync and async), and Alembic migrations

• Advanced knowledge of AWS services including RDS, S3, SQS, ECS, and IAM fundamentals

• Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform

• Experience with background processing, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows

• Proficiency with observability and monitoring: distributed tracing (ddtrace), structured logging (structlog), and metrics/alerting (Datadog)

• Strong testing mindset with pytest, fixtures/mocking, and async test patterns; familiarity with property-based testing (Hypothesis) is a plus

• Experience with agile processes and a passion for automated testing and continuous delivery

• A focus on writing maintainable, performant, and well-documented code

• A healthy balance of creativity and skepticism and a proven track record of solving difficult problems

Excited about the opportunity, but worried you don’t meet all the requirements? We recognize that people are less likely to apply to jobs where they don’t meet every single qualification. Imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. We encourage you to apply anyway, and give us both the chance to find out if you’re the right candidate for this or other roles! 

Read about working at Electric here and meet our leadership team! 

We offer a range of benefits that include: 

• Flexible and generous PTO 

• Mental Wellness Days 

• Volunteer Days

• Medical, Vision, Dental, and Orthadontia Coverage

• 401k 

• ESOP (Employee Stock Option Program)

• Kindbody Membership for Family Planning

• Pre-taxed Commuter Benefits 

• Generous Parental Leave

• Paid medical, family, and military leave

• Short and Long Term Disability 

• Employee Assistance Programs 

• Life Insurance funded by Electric

• Training and career growth 

• Awesome team building events! 

Where?

We are headquartered in NYC, and have remote locations across 22 states. Our largest markets outside of the Tri-State area are California and Colorado. We embrace a hybrid culture and offer opportunities throughout the year for folks to get together in regional markets or at HQ. With a widely distributed team, we are used to working remotely across different time zones.

See below to see if you are eligible to work within the 22 states we hire in: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Utah, and Wisconsin

Standard Working Hours: 9:00AM -6:00PM

We are an equal opportunity employer. 

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users. 

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. Electric does not discriminate against candidates or employees because of their sex, race, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, veteran status or any other protected status under the law.

Accommodations

Electric is committed to providing access, equal opportunities, and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. To request a reasonable accommodation as part of the recruitment process, please contact: [email protected].