**About Us:**
The wholesale distribution industry is ready for a revolution, and Proton is at the forefront. Distributors play a crucial role in selling almost every physical product, yet this industry has lagged in adopting new technologies. Proton is transforming this space with AI-powered sales software, simplifying the complexities of selling millions of products and helping distributors better anticipate customer demands. Our mission is to modernize the distribution industry, delivering significant results such as 10x ROI, faster onboarding for new hires, and improved sales team satisfaction.
In 2022, we secured a $20M Series A from Felicis Ventures and Battery Ventures. Our focus this year is on expanding our customer base. If you enjoy wearing multiple hats and continuously learning and experimenting, consider joining the Proton team.
**The Role:**
Proton seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic SaaS team! Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you’ll drive the technical development of our Proton.ai product and platform. You’ll collaborate with the engineering team to build a scalable, customizable, high-performing, and secure application. We need a technically proficient individual with a deep curiosity about modern tech stacks who can make informed decisions to propel our engineering forward.
*Proton partners with Oyster HR to hire international employees as long-term contractors.*
*Gross Salary range: $50,000 – $70,000 USD annually, based on experience.*
**What you’ll do:**
– **Feature Development:** Lead backend coding for new features, guide the Product team on complexity and tradeoffs, develop features across the full stack, and quickly deliver impactful customer value.
– **Team Collaboration:** Work within a cross-functional team to provide architectural guidance, ensuring our stack decisions support future growth.
– **Enterprise Customizability:** Use your enterprise application experience to customize solutions for corporate clients.
– **Performance and Reliability:** Contribute your expertise in building reliable applications, supporting end-to-end architecture and data flow discussions.
**You’ll be a great fit for this role if:**
– You have extensive experience as a principal engineer or in similar roles within startups, focusing on scalable SaaS solutions.
– You possess over 7 years of experience developing scalable SaaS applications and over 5 years with backend technologies like Python, Go, C#, or Java.
– You can demonstrate successful product architecture and secure coding practices.
– You understand cloud-native technologies, including providers, databases, application performance, scalability, and security.
– You’re curious about new technologies, actively explore the latest frameworks, and compare technologies for specific use cases.
– You prefer experience with enterprise applications.
– You have exceptional communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
**Current Tech Stack**
*Backend*
– Elasticsearch & Redis as the main databases
– Transitioning to SQL as the primary database
– Python API services running in Kubernetes
– Daily computations in Airflow
– Machine learning including AI models and neural networks
– Machine Learning Engineers focusing on enhancing and deploying models
*Frontend*
– Vue.js 3/Nuxt 3
– Migrating Vue Component frameworks to Vuetify
– Docker and Kubernetes for deployment
– CI with Github Actions
We welcome skilled developers eager to learn and expand their expertise, even if you’re not familiar with every aspect of our stack. If you’re willing to learn, we encourage you to apply!
**Benefits:**
– **Competitive Salaries + Company Stock Options:** We value equitable pay and making you feel like an owner.
– **Flexible Schedule:** We believe autonomy, responsibility, and asynchronous work lead to a great work environment.
– **Biannual Company Paid Off-sites:** Opportunities to brainstorm and create magic together.
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