Frontend Engineer

About the job

Postscript is redefining marketing for ecommerce companies. By introducing SMS as an entirely new channel for ecommerce stores to engage, retain, and convert their customer base, brands are seeing huge ROI with Postscript. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator and other top investors, Postscript is growing fast and looking for remarkable people to help build a world class organization. To learn more about postscript, checkout this article from one of our investors, Greylock, on our vision for the Future of Marketing.

Job Description

The Flow Builder team is responsible for designing, developing, and supporting Postscript’s message orchestration platform. We are constantly improving on the current platform and adding new features that empower merchants to run their entire SMS business through Postscript. The Flow Builder product is experiencing fast growth and adoption leading to a number of new and exciting challenges to solve. We are looking for a motivated software engineer with an interest in building scalable and extensible products to join our growing team.

Primary Duties

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Flow Builder team you will use your passion and expertise for software engineering to enhance our message orchestration platform, enabling our customers to engage their subscribers through conversational messaging. You will be given the autonomy to grow to your full potential, and your work will directly impact our customers.

Senior Frontend Engineers at Postscript have a high impact on their team and on the wider engineering org through project leadership, technical expertise, and decision-making. As a Senior engineer you will guide your team in weighing technical constraints and business priorities to make the necessary trade-offs to deliver customer value. Our primary stack is currently React (TypeScript), Python, within a mostly monolithic, AWS-managed architecture. We are in the process of switching over to a microservices environment, which will be on both Go and Python.

Requirements

• Research, design, and deploy new user friendly technical solutions for a variety of projects.
• Thoughtfully tackling technical debt while innovating in an existing codebase
• Collaborate closely on a cross-functional team to deliver a world-class product
• Take ownership and get creative with your solutions, dive into bold ideas in order to achieve outstanding results
• Contribute to the health of the team through honest and direct feedback as we iterate and improve on our processes
• Guide your team to make optimal technical and product design decisions
• Be accountable for communicating transparently and proactively, defining scope, breaking down and estimating tasks, risk and change management

What We’ll Love About You

• Minimum 6-8 years professional software development experience
• Experience leading projects and delivering end to end on a solution successfully
• Experience working in fast-paced development environments
• Experience working in low latency, high throughput applications
• Good communication skills and a team player
• Willingness to learn new technologies and a flexible mindset
• Mentor and support your fellow engineers via code reviews, design reviews and peer feedback

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