# Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Complete](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/complete)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Skills:** Python, Django, Postgres, GraphQL, Strawberry, React, React Query, Clerk, Datadog, Sentry
**Posted:** 2024-08-14

> Builds and scales backend systems for compensation platform, owning business lines end-to-end. Works autonomously on enterprise challenges like authorization, security, and observability using Python/Django and GraphQL.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and grow entire lines of businesses end-to-end
- Work with high autonomy in a small team of experienced product engineers
- Scale to new countries, 10,000+ users, and enterprise customers
- Tackle deep problems in authorization, customizability, observability, and security

## Requirements
- Senior or Staff level experience
- Move with urgency and high agency
- Obsessed with customer outcomes
- Challenge the status quo

## Tech Stack
**Backend:** Python (Django), Postgres
**API:** GraphQL (Strawberry)
**Frontend:** React, React Query
**Other:** Clerk (auth), Merge (ATS/HRIS integrations), Datadog, Sentry, LaunchDarkly, GitHub, Docker, Graphite

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