Sr. Backend Engineer

At Parkade, we're transforming how parking works at private buildings to create a world with far less parking — one where every parking spot is available at the push of a button. Hundreds of existing customers love Parkade, and investors do, too; they recently funded our Series A. We're now ready to get Parkade into every apartment, condo, and office building in the US.

Here’s where you come in: We're looking for a nimble, entrepreneurial backend engineer to help us deliver changes to our server, mobile/web endpoints, payment processing, pricing, new-building-rollout tools and other backend systems to drive our growth. You will report to our CTO, and work closely with the (small and mighty!) existing engineering team, as well as Product, Design, and CS. 

Specifically, you’ll: 

• Help build and scale the Parkade server and API, written in Python, which supports the mobile and web apps.

• Have an outsized impact on how things are built.

• Work with our team to build a delightful product, inside and out.

• Respond to error logs, alerts, and operations feedback to improve system reliability and prevent repeat issues. 

• Look for opportunities to reduce complexity, prevent bugs before they happen, and build maintainable systems that fail gracefully.

• Ensure the backend is built with high reliability, and is easily observable + debuggable.

• Join a company focused on sustained productivity rather than excessive hours.

• Be working with: 

  • Python 3.13 

  • Flask

  • SQLAlchemy 2

  • Postgres

  • 100k lines of code

Ideally, you have: 

• 6+ years experience doing backend work at tech companies.

• Strong familiarity (3+ years) with Python. Deep understanding of language, runtime, and best practices.

• Familiarity with SQL databases, and python ORMs in general, Postgres and SQLAlchemy, specifically, are a bonus.

• Experience maintaining large codebases with multiple contributors, with clear ability to make solid design decisions backed up by mistakes you've made in the past.

• Ability to develop infrastructure as needed to support deployments, continuous integration, production hosting, developer environments and more.

• Experience filling specification gaps and suggesting your preferred design and product options.

Bonus; what makes you stand out: 

• More experience is better — everyone else on the team has at least 12 years experience each as an engineer in tech companies.

• You care deeply about problems related to parking and efficient use of space and resources in cities.

• You have Team Lead or management experience, or desire to grow in leadership

• Experience writing frontend code with React or React Native.

• You are located in (or open to move to) the San Francisco Bay Area and are excited to spend time with our team in person at our SF-Mission office, generally at least a couple days per week. 

Location:

Remote is OK within the US, preference for folks in CA, specifically the SF Bay Area or LA/Long Beach. 

In return, you’ll get: 

• Competitive pay, solid stake in Parkade 

• Medical, dental, vision coverage 

• 401k 

• FSA, Commuter benefits, lunch in-office, and the opportunity for impact on a real problem, while building our culture 

• Opportunity for significant impact on a real-world problem

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