ChowNow - Backend Engineer, Senior

• Progress through our Ramp Camp (ChowNow’s New Hire Onboarding Experience) • Learn our business model and how it translates to platform architecture and features. We work closely with the product and it influences how we think about the code. • Master our development patterns and collaborative processes. We work together to make work efficient. • Read (and write) internal documentation and proposals, and test your features and systems. We take responsibility for communication, quality, and operations. • Grasp the basics of the platform architecture. Developers share responsibility for our always available APIs. • Squash a bug or two from your squad’s backlog or ship a small feature to production. • Have become an expert on your squad’s area of the platform and made an impact on it. We celebrate our success by measuring our impact, internally and externally. • Build, launch, and support your first big release on our platform. We ship with iterative agility. • Understand how our systems interoperate and be comfortable navigating the stack and infrastructure. We are all generalists, but we specialize in areas too. • Have worked with others on your squad to contribute to the architecture for a new system, optimization, or feature. We communicate and collaborate on our architecture to achieve security, scalability, and maximum learning. • Look for opportunities to help your squad ship faster. • Learn our business model and how it translates to our systems and services. • Build within reliable estimates. We know this takes time, and we strive to be accurate with each other. • Feel comfortable as an expert on your team, teaching others and continuing to learn. We want to learn as much as we teach. • Be an essential part of growing our team by fully participating in the hiring interview process. We share the responsibility to grow our team. • Have suggested or made a process improvement that benefits the productivity of your squad. • You Should Apply If: • You have 5+ years of experience building SaaS products, e-commerce platforms, or similar online systems, with expertise in Python. • You leverage AI development tools to accelerate your work, and exercise good judgment about where they help and where human review is essential • You've designed and versioned public or partner-facing APIs, balancing backward compatibility with the need to evolve them • You have experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and containerized deployments • You embrace experimentation and make decisions based on data and evidence • You've built and maintained event-driven or asynchronous systems (e.g., message queues, background job processing) that handle high transaction volume • You are excited about new technologies, are able to judge the maturity of the latest innovations, and find practical use for them • You've diagnosed and resolved production performance issues — slow queries, memory leaks, or scaling bottlenecks — and put guardrails in place to prevent recurrence • You strive for constant improvement and encourage others to build quality software • You are comfortable with transparency and open lines of communication, both within your team and with external stakeholders • You enjoy being the “glue” between product teams and infrastructure • You are passionate about observability, process improvements, CI/CD, and deployment frequency