Senior Python Engineer
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Senior Python Engineer Platform team$180k - $280k Remote
Howrecruit has been retained by one of the startup world's best-kept secrets. They are a profitable, fast-growing home services platform on a mission to make quality and affordable home cleaning accessible to everyone, while providing cleaning professionals with a stable and rewarding career. We are working in collaboration with the VP of Engineering to help them find a Senior Python/Platform Engineer to join their small, high-performing engineering team.
About the RoleThey are seeking a pragmatic and experienced engineer to evolve their backend infrastructure, ensure the scalability and reliability of their systems, and improve developer productivity. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex backend problems, architecting reliable systems, and enabling product engineers to ship products faster.
What You'll Do
What We’re Looking For
Why Join
If you want a lot of ownership of solutions from architecture to deployment, then we need to talk. Please submit your resume and I'll be in touch asap.
Howrecruit has been retained by one of the startup world's best-kept secrets. They are a profitable, fast-growing home services platform on a mission to make quality and affordable home cleaning accessible to everyone, while providing cleaning professionals with a stable and rewarding career. We are working in collaboration with the VP of Engineering to help them find a Senior Python/Platform Engineer to join their small, high-performing engineering team.
About the RoleThey are seeking a pragmatic and experienced engineer to evolve their backend infrastructure, ensure the scalability and reliability of their systems, and improve developer productivity. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex backend problems, architecting reliable systems, and enabling product engineers to ship products faster.
What You'll Do
- Own and improve core infrastructure and platform services
- Maintain and evolve backend systems (Python, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Build tooling and automation to support fast and safe deployments
- Improve observability and incident response systems
- Work closely with product engineers to improve the developer experience
- Help shape engineering best practices and tech direction
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience with backend systems, ideally with Python
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
- Solid understanding of PostgreSQL, Redis, containerization, and CI/CD
- Experience owning deployments and monitoring in a production environment
- A collaborative approach and strong communication skills
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, remote environment
Why Join
- Bootstrapped and profitable with strong month-over-month growth
- Small, senior team with low overhead and high ownership
- Fully remote within time zones UTC +1 to UTC -8
- Competitive compensation and flexibility
- Direct impact on scaling a product that supports thousands of professionals
If you want a lot of ownership of solutions from architecture to deployment, then we need to talk. Please submit your resume and I'll be in touch asap.