Backend Engineer

Keepsafe Software

San Francisco (CA)

Remote

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

100% health care premiums

Stipend for home office setup

Fast growth in a small team

Job summary

A leading consumer privacy company is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance their mobile privacy products. You will work on backend systems, develop RESTful APIs, and ensure robust encryption and data security. The role requires a minimum of 2 years' related experience and strong Python skills. Enjoy competitive compensation and benefits while working from anywhere in the U.S. after initial onboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Qualifications

Great software engineering skills: code speaks stronger than degrees.
Experience developing in Python 3.x.
Strong knowledge of DevOps fundamentals.

Responsibilities

Design and own a significant part of the codebase.
Develop core pieces of infrastructure.
Collaborate directly with product and design teams.

Skills

Backend development using Python

Designing and developing RESTful APIs

Database design and optimization

Experience with mobile backend services

API gateways knowledge

Experience integrating with third-party APIs

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Minimum 2 years of full-time related experience

Job description

Overview

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This range is provided by Keepsafe Software. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$120,000.00/yr - $150,000.00/yr

Keepsafe is a leader in the consumer privacy space with over 100 million users globally on iOS and Android trusting us. Our flagship photo vault reflects our belief that protecting personal pictures, videos, and important documents on your phone should be simple and foolproof. This year, we\'ll develop and launch new offerings allowing people to save and share their data without sacrificing control.

Our founders are serial entrepreneurs from Germany who appreciate ambitious and independent thinking, precision, beautiful code, and above all else privacy. We are a fully-remote team with monthly in-person meet-ups. Onboarding will take place in-person in the San Francisco Bay Area. We\'re looking for exceptional engineers to define and build the next generation of our consumer privacy mobile product.

As an engineer at Keepsafe, you\'ll serve millions of people who use our apps daily. You\'ll have the opportunity to carry a lot of responsibility and have a direct impact on the company. You\'ll work autonomously and design and own a significant part of our codebase. You\'ll help the team scale, develop core pieces of infrastructure, and solve hard problems.

Our engineering team is at the forefront of security, smart encryption, key management, data transcoding, secure and fast cloud sync, and back-end custom analytics development for the future. You\'ll collaborate directly with our product and design teams and work with your peers to make big decisions about how things get done.

We are proud to have open sourced some of our work on our Github page. Some selected projects we\'re proud of are:

aiohttp, a HTTP Client/Server for Python\'s asyncio
ReLinker, a robust native library loader for Android
TapTargetView, an implementation of tap targets from the Material Design guidelines for feature discovery
dexcount-gradle-plugin, for showing dex method counts per app build
android-resource-remover, for removing unused resources from your Android project
MultiStateAnimation, Android library to create complex multi-state animations
Switchboard, a mobile A/B testing framework

Our Tech Stack

Android - Kotlin
iOS - Swift 5
Python3.x
AWS
DynamoDB
Postgres
Couchbase Server/Lite

About Keepsafe

Keepsafe protects your personal space. Our mission is to make privacy and security simple. In an era that\'s overvalued sharing, privacy is the new freedom.

Our flagship product, Keepsafe Photo Vault, has been downloaded by close to 100 million people all across the globe and is a leader in the consumer app subscription business.

Requirements

Great software engineering skills: code speaks stronger than degrees
Experience developing in Python 3.x
Strong knowledge of DevOps fundamentals
Appetite for fast product iteration, shipping high quality apps
Mindset for independent work and ownership of the apps
Experience or interest in cryptography and security engineering
Minimum 2 years of full-time related experience

Software Engineering Skills

Proficiency in backend development using Python
Experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs
Knowledge of API gateways (AWS API Gateway, Nginx) and rate limiting, authentication, and caching strategies
Experience with mobile backend services that support iOS/Android clients (Couchbase Server/Gateway)
Understanding of database design and optimization (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Couchbase)
Familiarity with push notifications and real-time communication (WebSockets, MQTT, Firebase Cloud Messaging)
Ability to work with message queues and event-driven architecture (SQS, Pub/Sub)
Experience integrating with third-party APIs (payment gateways, social auth, analytics, etc.)
Experience with frontend development (HTML, CSS, JS, Vue.js or other framework) and Zendesk Plugin architecture

DevOps Skills

Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
Solid knowledge of scripting and automation (Python, Bash)
Experience in monitoring, logging, and alerting (ELK, Datadog)
Knowledge of networking, security best practices, and identity management (IAM, OAuth, SSO)
Understanding of microservices architectures and API management
Experience working with message queues and event-driven architectures (AWS SQS)
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)

Extra

Experience with asynchronous programming in Python (asyncio, aiohttp)
Experience with application deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, Rolling Updates)
Familiarity with database management (SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, Redis)
Experience with Key/Secret Management best practices
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform, Ansible)

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Excellent benefits - 100% health care premiums, great dental, vision & family benefits
Remote company: in-person onboarding in San Francisco Bay Area then work from anywhere in the United States
Stipend for work from home desk setup including phone/internet
Fast growth in a small, high-performance team
Can transfer H1B

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