Python Engineer; Django
Job in
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02298, USA
Listed on 2025-12-01
Listing for:
Djangojobs
Full Time
position Listed on 2025-12-01
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Python
Job Description & How to Apply Below
We're seeking a hands‑on Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for our Django-based SMS marketing platform. This is a critical role focused on maintaining stability while evolving a high-volume system. This position will build trust as a technical expert while helping the team make great decisions to improve and scale messaging infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities- Lead technical initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability for our high-volume SMS platform
- Maintain and simplify distributed system for segmenting and delivering SMS messages at high volume
- Create technical documentation, runbooks, and development tooling to reduce knowledge siloing and improve developer experience
- Provide architectural and system design direction for new capabilities and scaling existing capabilities
- Support engineers through hands‑on technical mentorship while remaining actively involved in code development
- Participate in on‑call rotation and contribute to or lead incident response as necessary
- Collaborate with Ruby/Rails engineering team leaders to establish engineering strategy
- 10+ years of hands‑on SaaS software development experience with at least 3+ years developing in Python/Django
- Deep experience with message queuing systems (Celery, Rabbit
MQ, Kafka, SNS, etc.), distributed systems, and both monolithic and service‑oriented architectures - Proven track record of improving legacy codebases and experience working with legacy Django systems – experience upgrading legacy Django systems is a plus
- Strong systems design skills with experience building horizontally scalable architectures
- Experience with SMS/telephony or email delivery systems – Twilio is a plus
- Strong written communication skills and established habits communicating asynchronously and teaching through technical documentation
- Have been in a Senior+ hands‑on coding role in the last 2 years
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