Software Engineer - Python/Django

Backstage; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a rapidly growing company as a Software Engineer specializing in Python and Django. In this role, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features, while enjoying a culture that emphasizes autonomy and continuous learning. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in building scalable web applications and collaborating with diverse teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building a major product for a public-facing web application.
• Advanced proficiency with Python and Django.
• Solid database skills in relational database systems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to develop new product features and enhancements.
• Design and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code.
• Coordinate with frontend engineers to ensure cohesive user experience.

Skills

Python

Django

Project Management

Unit Testing

Debugging

Communication

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch

PostgresSQL

MySQL

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Base pay range

$140,000.00/yr - $150,000.00/yr

About Backstage

Backstage is the largest talent marketplace for the entertainment industry, media, brand marketers, and other content creators, matching their creative projects with the best actors, voiceover artists, production crew, and other industry professionals. Employers around the world use our best-in-class technology to staff over 50,000 creative projects a year in film, television, commercials, branded content, theater, experiential marketing, and more.

The Role:

Backstage is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our passionate web team. Our backend web team consists of nine engineers, and includes mid and senior level engineers, tech leads, and an engineering manager. This team is a part of Backstage’s larger product and engineering department, which numbers approximately thirty high-performance engineers, designers, product managers, analysts, and quality assurance resources. We value curiosity, trust, and impact, and we foster a culture of constant learning and improvement where teammates work together to accomplish user-focused initiatives. While we are open to remote candidates, candidates based in the NYC-area are strongly preferred.

Our process is a modified Kanban process with the goal of delivering incremental value to the customer. Products are workshopped and then broken into milestones, with estimates driven by engineers, not managers. We uphold autonomy and trust our engineers to pick the best tools suited for their tasks, while working collaboratively towards mutual goals.

In line with our goal to continue delivering value to the customer, we release multiple times a day, every day, and adhere to a robust QA and code review process before any code is relea

sed.As a backend engineer, you will be working with cutting edge technology and new product development in a stable and rapidly growing company. You will be partnering with our product and tech leads to design and architect new features. This is an individual contributor role, and you will be empowered to make your own decisions about implementations and given autonomy to complete your work at your own pace.

The Backend Engineer will report to our Director of Engineering.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with product, marketing, business intelligence, and design teams to develop new product features and enhancements
• Design engineering plans to meet the requirements of the product or goal
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code
• Contribute to and influence the overall backend architecture decisions
• Work closely with product, marketing, and customer service to translate customer feedback into successful features and tools
• Collaborate with backend engineers outside your feature team to maintain shared code and infrastructure
• Coordinate with frontend engineers to provide a cohesive experience
• Use both technical and relational skills to lead large scale projects to completion
• Collaborate, mentor, and learn with a high-performing team of engineers

What we’re looking for from you:

• 4+ years proven experience building a major product or feature from scratch at scale for a large public-facing web application
• Advanced proficiency with Python and Django
• Solid database skills in a relational database (i.e., PostgresSQL, MySQL, etc.)
• Experience with Elasticsearch a plus
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Experience incrementally rolling out new features, components or refactors without blocking the rest of the team, and iterating upon and maintaining live products
• Strong project management skills; able to organize, adhere to process, and execute projects across disciplines and by deadline
• Excellent communication skills; you can articulate clearly, thoroughly, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortability with the entire development life cycle (inception to release) in an Agile environment
• Collaborative, engaged, and adaptable; you are comfortable joining a team with a large, mature codebase with established engineering processes
• Flexible and proactive, you’re able to shift gears quickly in a fast-paced environment

About TCS

TCS’ mission is to empower creative talent and streamline the content creation process for projects in film, television, commercials/branded content, social media, theater, music video, video games, and more. We provide solutions that manage the entire project lifecycle, including talent discovery and staffing, production, post production, and distribution. Our brands include Backstage, Coverfly, FilmFreeway, Final Draft, ShareGrid, and Voice123. TCS the creative services division of Cast & Crew, a family of individually innovative companies modernizing the ways in which content is created.

Backstage is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship or marital status, and to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias based upon these grounds.

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