Senior Fullstack Engineer, Customer Context
Postscript, an AI-powered SMS marketing platform for Shopify brands, is hiring a senior fullstack engineer to build and scale the foundational services, APIs, and data pipelines behind its targeting and AI features. Daily work blends backend engineering (Python/Go/Rust, TypeScript/React) on AWS and Kafka-driven systems with heavy use of AI coding tools. Fully remote within the US or Canada.
- Compensation
- $175K–$205K / yr
- Location
- Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 6+ years of experience building large-scale data-intensive backend systems and APIs
- Active daily user of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent) who can speak concretely to how they changed output and workflow
- Proficiency in some or all of: Python, Go, Rust, React, and TypeScript
- Follows the AI tooling landscape closely (new model releases, agentic workflows, evolving best practices)
- Thinks critically about AI output — knows where it accelerates, where it introduces risk, and how to verify it
- Able to context switch quickly across concurrent workstreams
- Experience working on both 0-to-1 initiatives and complex existing systems
- Working knowledge of event-driven distributed systems, Kafka, and familiarity with distributed data processing technologies (Flink/Spark/etc)
- Experience growing systems under production customer load, ideally from early days to multi-terabyte stage
- Experience building and designing high-scale systems on AWS with a broad variety of database technologies (RDBMS, OLAP, NoSQL)
- Knowledge of relational data modeling, index strategy design, and performant SQL for transactional and analytical workloads
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and comfort applying infra changes
- Familiarity building and observing applications on AWS & Kubernetes, ideally with Datadog, Signoz, or comparable tooling
- Clear, direct communication; surfaces information proactively in cross-functional, async teams
Full description
Postscript is the AI messaging platform trusted by 20,000+ Shopify brands — including Brooklinen, Ruggable, True Classic, and Dr. Squatch.
With a mission to make SMS your number one revenue driving channel, we built the best-in-class SMS marketing platform and launched revenue-driving AI features not available on any other platform. And we're just getting started.
Backed by Greylock and Y Combinator, fully remote since 2018.
We are looking for a polyglot Senior Fullstack Engineer to join the Customer Context team. You’ll help build and scale the foundational services, APIs, and pipelines that power the Postscript product. This role blends strong backend engineering skills with a deep appreciation for data intensive systems, performance, and reliability. You’ll collaborate closely with other software engineers, data engineers, and product to help e-commerce marketers maximize their revenue with best-in-class targeting and context-driven AI.
This is a high-autonomy role for engineers who are energized by ambiguity, take genuine ownership of their work, and bring a strong point of view on how to build things well, without sacrificing speed or pragmatism. AI isn't a nice-to-have here — it's central to how we work. We expect our engineers to be active practitioners of AI-first development: fluent with the latest agentic coding tools, curious about what's emerging, and constantly pushing the boundary of what's possible with AI in their day-to-day craft. If you're the kind of engineer who's already experimenting with new models and tooling before anyone asks you to, you'll feel at home here.
As a senior engineer at Postscript, you’ll no longer be only writing code but orchestrating it.
This position is fully remote and can be based in the US or Canada.
What You'll Do
- Take deep ownership of systems and product areas on your team, and become the go-to technical expert for what you own
- Independently investigate, design, and execute solutions across distributed systems with a high degree of ambiguity
- Architect, build, and maintain highly available, scalable REST APIs and backend services for internal and external use
- Drive system decoupling, modularization, and technical debt reduction.. Improve long-term maintainability without blocking near-term delivery
- Build agentically as your default: leveraging concurrent autonomous agent workflows, owning the output, and keeping a steady queue of aligned work moving
- Stay at the forefront of emerging AI tooling and practices, bringing new techniques back to the team and helping raise the floor for how Postscript engineers work
- Contribute to how we think about integrating AI into our systems and workflows. That means not just using AI tools, but helping shape where and how AI creates leverage across the engineering org