Senior and Staff Backend Engineers (Remote)

Otis is looking for talented engineers to bring our vision of building a new asset class around culture. We're not looking for rockstars or ninjas; we're simply looking for smart people who are always willing to learn and who never shy away from a challenge. We are open to a range of commitment levels (full-time, part-time, and contract work) and are happy to work with team members to find the best work structure for their lives. What You'll Do: • You'll be working with a small team in building a consumer facing product that will be used by millions of people just like you. • As a backend engineer, you will be helping build all the server-side code that powers the Otis experience. This includes creating new APIs, maintaining/improving our code base, designing/refactoring our database schema, and developing our infrastructure. Our stack is Python + Django + Postgres. • At Otis, senior and staff engineers are those who have a history of building performant and scalable web services at an expert or master level, respectively. At Otis, the average senior engineer has at least five years of professional experience and the average staff engineer has at least eight. • We prefer generalists over specialists. Bringing our vision to life will be a challenge, and we'll frequently be pushed outside our comfort zones. Who You Are: • You are an expert with dynamic languages like Javascript, Python, or Ruby and you're willing to learn Python (3 to be precise). • You are obsessed with clean code. You take pride in great class design and choosing the right level of abstraction. Tests are your best friend. • You are an expert with web frameworks like Django, Rails, or Express. • You are extremely comfortable with SQL databases. You know when to use transactions and when to select for update. N+1 queries are your worst nightmares. • You are a master with designing APIs. You immediately know something is wrong when you see POST /update_name. • U.S. work authorization with no visa sponsorship required • Bonus points for Redis and no-SQL experience. • Bonus points for frontend experience, e.g. React, React Native, Swift, etc Example Projects: • Designing the models and APIs to handle our secondary trading platform • Building integrations with third party vendors to manage the flow of funds • Enhancing our categorization of investments to allow for search and discovery • Scaling our infrastructure and architecture to handle extreme bursts of traffic About Otis At Otis, we turn aficionados into shareholders. We believe in transparency, liquidity, and trusting your own gut. We're democratizing an otherwise closed market and making alternative assets accessible. Invest in the things that you value, and whose value you understand, for as little as $25 and build a portfolio better suited to a museum than a stock ticker. Our Culture We have a saying here: “we design our culture like we design the product.” Culture is the most important foundation for a successful company. A great culture provides the context for people to deliver their best work. Our goal is to find the fastest way to win. Our culture is designed to allow us to achieve this (read more). Transparent Compensation We don’t believe that better negotiators necessarily make better employees. Every employee can see their current salary, the salary levels for their team, and what each level’s salary increase would amount to in the future. This allows us to offer equal pay to all employees. Otis is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse thoughts are welcomed and rewarded. Apply tot his job