$60K - $95K
Location
MX / AR / BR / CL / EC / PE / BO / CR / UY / PY / CU / SV / CO / Remote (MX; AR; BR; CL; EC; PE; BO; CR; UY; PY; CU; SV; CO)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Chen Atlas
Founder
About the role
We’re seeking a highly knowledgeable and experienced Senior Backend Engineer who enjoys early stage environments that provide freedom to move fast and ship new customer-facing products and features at high velocity. You’ll work closely with the founders of the company and have a high degree of influence and input into the direction of the product and company. The right candidate will have a high degree of versatility and excels at creating software at all layers of web application platforms. The role requires outstanding communication and customer empathy skills. Since we are a remote first company, you will simultaneously need to be able to collaborate well, and be self-directed and work independently.
The ideal person will be passionate about building consumer data privacy software, and will have experience across most of these areas:
Python / Django
Django-rest-framework
Writing tests
Asynchronous jobs execution / event brokers (Celery / RabbitMQ / Redis)
Databases - Postgres, SQL, and NoSQL (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra)
User data security best practices
Designing core, backend software components
Implementing integrations with third-party APIs
Diagnosing and addressing performance issues
Kubernetes, microservices, and resource management
AWS, GCP, Azure
HTML and Javascript experience
Bonus if you have experience working in the consumer privacy or consumer data industries, React, HTMX and automation tools
QUALIFICATIONS
5+ years experience as a backend or full-stack engineer building web applications
3+ years experience with Python and Django
Demonstrated knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals
Maturity, Self-awareness, Empathy, a Strong work ethic, Attention to detail, and a Positive attitude
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience
LOCATION
Optery is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, but operates as a fully-remote global team. While this is not necessarily a U.S.-based position, working regular U.S. business hours, i.e. U.S. Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific time zones, is strongly preferred.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Competitive salary
Flexible vacation policy
Stipend for home office setup
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Optery values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. Optery does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.
About Optery
Now is a great time to join Optery. We’ve 3x-ed revenue in the last year, our product was awarded “Editors’ Choice” by PCMag as the most outstanding in its category for the 3rd year in a row, we presented at SXSW Pitch as a finalist in the Enterprise and Smart Data category, our latest funding round was covered by TechCrunch, Fast Company awarded Optery to their Next Big Things in Tech for Security and Privacy, we’ve received numerous Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, and we're changing the game in the world of consumer data in a way that puts individuals in control.
Optery is automated opt out software, and we serve individuals, families and businesses. Our mission is to empower people to take control of their personal data, and we have a vision for a safer world through data privacy.
Optery is the first company to offer a free report with dozens of screenshots showing where your personal information is being posted by hundreds of data brokers online (https://app.optery.com/signup), and the first to offer IT teams a completely self-service platform for finding and removing employee personal information from the web (https://business.optery.com/signup). Optery subscription plans automatically remove customers from these sites, clearing your home address, phone number, email and other personal information from the Internet at scale. The service is used to prevent threats like phishing, social engineering, identity theft, harassment and physical violence.
Optery has completed its AICPA SOC 2, Type II security certification, and distinguishes itself with unparalleled search technology, data removal automation, visual evidence-based before-and-after reporting, data broker coverage, and API integration options.
Tens of thousands of users and hundreds of companies rely on Optery to prevent attacks and keep personal information off the Internet. Optery has raised $6M in seed funding by Y Combinator, Bayhouse Capital, Global Founders Capital, Goodwater Capital, Pioneer Fund, Soma Capital, TRAC and other world-class investors.
Optery is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, but operates as a fully-remote global team.
Optery
Founded:2020
Team Size:20
Location:Walnut Creek, CA
Founders
Chen Atlas
Founder
Lawrence Gentilello
Founder
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