Djangojobs
We're seeking a hands‑on Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for our Django-based SMS marketing platform. This is a critical role focused on maintaining stability while evolving a high-volume system. This position will build trust as a technical expert while helping the team make great decisions to improve and scale messaging infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Lead technical initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability for our high-volume SMS platform
Maintain and simplify distributed system for segmenting and delivering SMS messages at high volume
Create technical documentation, runbooks, and development tooling to reduce knowledge siloing and improve developer experience
Provide architectural and system design direction for new capabilities and scaling existing capabilities
Support engineers through hands‑on technical mentorship while remaining actively involved in code development
Participate in on‑call rotation and contribute to or lead incident response as necessary
Collaborate with Ruby/Rails engineering team leaders to establish engineering strategy
Requirements
10+ years of hands‑on SaaS software development experience with at least 3+ years developing in Python/Django
Deep experience with message queuing systems (Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS, etc.), distributed systems, and both monolithic and service‑oriented architectures
Proven track record of improving legacy codebases and experience working with legacy Django systems – experience upgrading legacy Django systems is a plus
Strong systems design skills with experience building horizontally scalable architectures
Experience with SMS/telephony or email delivery systems – Twilio is a plus
Strong written communication skills and established habits communicating asynchronously and teaching through technical documentation
Have been in a Senior+ hands‑on coding role in the last 2 years
Django is a registered trademark of the Django Software Foundation | DjangoJobs is not associated with the Django Software Foundation
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Key Responsibilities
Lead technical initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability for our high-volume SMS platform
Maintain and simplify distributed system for segmenting and delivering SMS messages at high volume
Create technical documentation, runbooks, and development tooling to reduce knowledge siloing and improve developer experience
Provide architectural and system design direction for new capabilities and scaling existing capabilities
Support engineers through hands‑on technical mentorship while remaining actively involved in code development
Participate in on‑call rotation and contribute to or lead incident response as necessary
Collaborate with Ruby/Rails engineering team leaders to establish engineering strategy
Requirements
10+ years of hands‑on SaaS software development experience with at least 3+ years developing in Python/Django
Deep experience with message queuing systems (Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS, etc.), distributed systems, and both monolithic and service‑oriented architectures
Proven track record of improving legacy codebases and experience working with legacy Django systems – experience upgrading legacy Django systems is a plus
Strong systems design skills with experience building horizontally scalable architectures
Experience with SMS/telephony or email delivery systems – Twilio is a plus
Strong written communication skills and established habits communicating asynchronously and teaching through technical documentation
Have been in a Senior+ hands‑on coding role in the last 2 years
Django is a registered trademark of the Django Software Foundation | DjangoJobs is not associated with the Django Software Foundation
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