DEPT® - Senior, Software Engineer
Requirements
• Proven experience building and maintaining production-level backend systems used by real people. • Strong proficiency in Python. • Python • Experience designing and integrating APIs and third-party systems. • Solid working knowledge of database platforms, both SQL and NoSQL. • database platforms • Enough familiarity with modern frontend development (preferably Angular and Typescript) to read the code, review a PR, and debug across the stack. • modern frontend development • Experience with at least one major cloud provider. Google Cloud preferred, AWS or Azure also welcome. • major cloud provider • Daily, real-world use of GenAI productivity tools (Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Codex) in your development workflow. • GenAI productivity tools • A working understanding of core LLM concepts and where they're a good fit for a problem. • LLM concepts • Fluency with version control (git), Agile processes, and CI/CD tooling. • The ability to research independently and know when to ask for help, without spinning wheels on already-solved problems. • A track record of "getting sh*t done" in a fast-paced environment. • Experience mentoring engineers earlier in their careers. • Exposure to agent development frameworks. • Contributions to open source, technical writing, or conference speaking.
Responsibilities
• Build and deploy scalable backend services and APIs for global brands, taking high ownership of your workstreams and their dependencies. • Take specs that are incomplete or ambiguous, resolve the open questions, and turn them into clear requirements, tasks, and stories with time-to-complete estimates people can plan around. • Participate in technical design of systems, schemas, and pipelines, and offer sound guidance on architecture and infrastructure decisions. • Integrate third-party APIs and systems, and design the contracts that frontend teams and other services build against. • Perform code reviews that raise the bar, both submitting your own work and giving constructive feedback that makes your teammates better. • Surface technical blockers, risks, and client-facing issues early enough for the team to course-correct. • Advocate for best practices in testing, security, performance, and CI/CD, and encourage others to do the same. • Work directly with working-level client stakeholders over email, on calls, and in person, and start building demo and presentation content of your own.
Benefits
• We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA. • We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter. • At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build. • What we believe in • What we believe in • We build software for the world's most ambitious brands, and we're opinionated about how it gets made: • Code quality is a top priority. Style guides, code reviews, and best practices are how we move fast without breaking things. You'll also get your hands on a wide range of cutting-edge technology. • Code quality is a top priority. • Great UI/UX is critical. Aesthetics, usability, and speed are all part of the product. A technically correct experience that feels bad isn't finished. • Great UI/UX is critical. • Collaboration wins projects. Great communication is the single strongest predictor of whether a project goes well. • Collaboration wins projects. • We're pragmatic. We know what to build and what to leave alone, and we make real-world tradeoffs between cost, speed, and craft. Shipping something useful beats architecting something perfect. • We're pragmatic. • We're intellectually curious. We're constantly learning through craft show & tells, lunch & learns, workshares, and active Slack channels full of talented engineers across the globe. • We're intellectually curious. • We are a collaborative, open-door, best-idea-wins environment that fosters personal and company growth and has fun doing it. Here is a snapshot of our benefits package: • Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage • 401k plan, plus matching • Paid Company Holidays • WE SUPPORT YOU BEING YOU:
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