Parkade's mission is to reshape cities and combat climate change by creating a world with far less parking. We build software that corporate buildings and apartment complexes use to improve parking utilization, revenue, enforcement and tenant experience at their properties. These features allow them to get by with less parking.
We're ready to get Parkade's product into every apartment, condo and office building and to do that - we need you. On top of our existing customer base, we have a slew of customers who want to use Parkade but are blocked until we can deliver the features on our roadmap.
We're looking for a nimble, entrepreneurial backend engineer to help us deliver changes to our server, mobile/web endpoints, payment processing, pricing, new-building-rollout tools and other backend systems to drive our growth.
About the job

• Join a small (but mighty!) engineering team.
• Help build and scale the Parkade server and API, written in Python, which supports the mobile and web apps.
• Have an outsized impact on how things are built.
• Join a company focused on sustained productivity rather than excessive hours.

Requirements

• At least 5 years experience doing backend work at tech companies.
• Strong familiarity (3 years) with Python or similar language. Deep understanding of language, runtime, and best practices.
• You're not a DBA, but you're familiar with basic datastore best practices and scalability using PostgreSQL, MySQL, or equivalent.
• Experience maintaining large codebases with multiple contributors, with clear ability to make solid design decisions backed up by mistakes you've made in the past.
• Able to develop infrastructure as needed to support deployments, continuous integration, production hosting, developer environments and more.
• You have experience filling specification gaps and suggesting your preferred design and product options.

Responsibilities

• Work with our team to build a delightful product, inside and out.
• Iterate on customer feedback to continuously improve features we've built.
• Advocate for the user experience, calling out problems and suggesting new ideas when you see them.
• Build with a mind for maintainability so that it's hard to break the app without also failing the tests.
• Ensure the backend is built with high reliability, and is easily observable debuggable.

Bonus points

• More experience is better - everyone else on the team has at least 12 years experience each as an engineer at tech companies.
• You are located in (or will move to) the San Francisco Bay Area and are excited to spend time with our team in person at our SF-Mission office, generally at least a few days a week
• Experience working with Google Cloud or AWS.
• Experience writing frontend code with React or React Native.
• You care deeply about problems related to parking and efficient use of space and resources in cities.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation that includes a strong base comp, and a significant stake in Parkade's success
• Healthcare to ensure all your bases are covered for you and your family
• Great culture embodied in our small, high-caliber team of mission-driven doers
• Flexible PTO to ensure employees get the time off they need and deserve
• Remote work program to allow for flexibility between home and the office