Senior Backend Engineer: Python/Django, Scale SaaS

Ostro; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and basicLife

Flexible PTO and company paid holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving program

Job summary

Ostro is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and deliver scalable services for its SaaS platform. You will build high‑quality APIs, data models, and system architecture that support rapid growth while championing clean code, testing, and maintainability.

The role requires 5+ years of SaaS experience, deep Python and Django expertise, and strong PostgreSQL skills. You will collaborate across product and engineering, review code, optimize performance, and help shape the platform as we expand in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production code for SaaS products.
• Strong Python and Django expertise.
• Relational database experience, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable backend services powering Veeva Ostro's SaaS platform.
• Architect and scale high-performance APIs for the platform.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to ship features.
• Ensure code health through testing, clean architecture, and reviews.
• Optimize application and database performance to support growth.
• Evaluate backend technologies to improve engineering practices.

Skills

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Communication

Job description

Ostro is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and deliver scalable services for its SaaS platform. You will build high‑quality APIs, data models, and system architecture that support rapid growth while championing clean code, testing, and maintainability.

The role requires 5+ years of SaaS experience, deep Python and Django expertise, and strong PostgreSQL skills. You will collaborate across product and engineering, review code, optimize performance, and help shape the platform as we expand in a