Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

People Data Labs is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack to build and improve standalone data products, APIs, and delivery methods. The role focuses on self-serve offerings, customer success tools, and reliable frontend and backend systems that support the company’s core business operations.

Responsibilities:

• Drive our self-serve product offerings to bring prospective customers into our products and grow new revenue
• Drive the core tools that our customer success team uses to support our customers
• Understand and translate our business requirements into the systems that support our core business activities
• Proactively work with stakeholders to clarify ambiguities in business operations and system design
• Design and update our systems using good design patterns on both frontend and backend, which allow for extensibility and evolution as our business evolves
• Ensure the integrity (correctness and accuracy) of data captured around key business activities so that we have a reliable source of truth on our operations
• Build and maintain our frontend components, design, and architecture
• Ensure the quality and reliability of frontend surfaces presented to users and the accuracy and effectiveness of the application stack supporting those surfaces

Requirements:

• 5-7+ years of industry experience with clear examples of strategic technical problem-solving and implementation
• Strong software development fundamentals
• Experience working in systems where you've had to engage with existing implementation patterns and evolve them over time
• 4+ years of experience with Python in a production environment (we are primarily a Python shop)
• Strong REST API design skills, including resource modeling, versioning, pagination, error handling, and authentication / authorization
• Production experience with backend frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, Flask, or similar
• Deep SQL experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar, including schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning
• Experience designing for performance and scale: caching strategies, background jobs and task queues, and handling high-volume or long-running workloads
• Experience writing well-tested backend code (e.g., pytest), with unit, integration, and API-level tests
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar), containerization (Docker), and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience instrumenting and operating services in production, including logging, metrics, alerting, and debugging live issues
• 2+ years of experience with React.js and TypeScript
• Experience with Next.js (or other React.js frontend frameworks)
• Comfortable implementing designs with CSS fundamentals and Tailwind CSS
• Ability to collaborate with UI/UX designers and contribute a customer-centric perspective
• Must thrive in a fast-paced environment and be able to work independently
• It's no sweat to scope, breakdown, and estimate projects effectively with a solid track record of delivery
• You communicate progress and blockers effectively with your manager, team, and stakeholders
• Strong written communication skills on Slack/Chat and in documents
• You collaborate well across engineering, design, and product management
• Experienced in writing technical design docs and translating technical design documents into projects, milestones, and backlogs
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers
• Ensure and develop solid code quality and development practices and standards within the team
• Experience with search or analytics data stores such as Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, or large-scale data processing (nice to have)
• Experience with Vercel, Figma, or working within an existing UI component library (nice to have)