Backend Engineer

Voltage Park is building a cloud infrastructure business from the ground up. As part of this effort, we’re hiring a Backend Engineer with an expertise in shipping monitored and resilient python backends from 0 to 1. You must know the key tools and frameworks for designing, testing, and serving key application logic to power our customer facing applications and internal tools.

This is an in office role in San Francisco. We are not able to provide sponsorship for this position.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain the entire backend system for product and internal tools

Design and implement database schemas

Write business logic and full integration tests

Manage pipeline from development and staging to production

Provide internal client library releases and API playgrounds

Deploy tools for logging, monitoring, and error handling

Collaborate with front-end and ops teams for integration

Build reusable code and libraries to accelerate development and support teammates

Qualifications

Python

ORMs and SQL DBs like PostgreSQL

GraphQL or OpenAPI

AWS, GCP, Heroku, or similar

Tools like Sentry for monitoring, logging, and error handling

Nice-to-haves :

Experience with Kubernetes

Deploying Machine Learning models in production

Culture

You enjoy working with a small group of friendly, highly motivated, execution focused colleagues

You’re comfortable with a high degree of autonomy. We expect you to independently prioritize your work and understand how it maps to the overall needs and goals of the company

You’re knowledgeable in your domain but also enjoy wearing multiple hats and venturing outside of your comfort zone when the need arises

You value the ability to write well and understand the importance of good documentation

Voltage Park is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic under federal, state, or local law. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify your recruiter.