Staff Python Engineer (Django)

About the Role

We're seeking a hands-on Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for our Django-based SMS marketing platform. This is a critical role focused on maintaining stability while evolving a high-volume system. This position will build trust as a technical expert while helping the team make great decisions to improve and scale messaging infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability for our high-volume SMS platform
• Maintain and simplify distributed system for segmenting and delivering SMS messages at high volume
• Create technical documentation, runbooks, and development tooling to reduce knowledge siloing and improve developer experience
• Provide architectural and system design direction for new capabilities and scaling existing capabilities
• Support engineers through hands-on technical mentorship while remaining actively involved in code development
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to or lead incident response as necessary
• Collaborate with Ruby / Rails engineering team leaders to establish engineering strategy

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