Senior Backend Engineer (Python + Django)

Description

Summary: Seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to collaborate closely with founders on product development and technical direction, focusing on online privacy. Highlights: 1. Work closely with founders on product development and technical direction 2. Contribute to new features for consumer dashboard and customer reporting 3. Focus on performance, reliability, and third-party integrations We help people remove their personal information from data broker websites and take back control of their online privacy. We’re a fully remote company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we’re looking for a **Senior Backend Engineer** to work closely with the founders on both product development and technical direction. This role is open to candidates based in **Latin America.** **What you'd work on in your first quarter:** You'd be writing code in our Django backend, which powers both the consumer dashboard and the B2B platform: * New features for the APIs that power our consumer dashboard and customer reporting * Performance and reliability work in our Celery and RabbitMQ pipelines * Integrations with third\-party services like payment providers and identity providers (Stripe, WorkOS SSO) * Code review, both giving and receiving, on a small backend team of other Senior Engineers We don't have a rigid roadmap of "first 30 days, first 60 days" — you'd pick up real work in your first week. Requirements: **What we're looking for:** * **6\+ years building production web applications** * **3\+ years with Python and Django** * **Celery, RabbitMQ, and Redis i**n production (day\-1 pipeline scope) * Working knowledge of CS fundamentals: data structures, concurrency, SQL, system design * Strong written communication; comfortable working async across time zones * Self\-direction and follow\-through * **Fluency in English** **Strong plus:** * DRF and/or django\-ninja * Postgres tuning and query analysis * Kubernetes and AWS * Stripe, WorkOS SSO, or other third\-party API integrations * HTMX, React, or both * Background in consumer privacy or adjacent industries * Experience with AI coding assistants (Claude Code, etc.)