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About the role
The mission of the Senior Backend Engineer is to design, build, and operate the backend services powering Super Dispatch's platform for carriers and shippers in the U.S. vehicle transportation industry. As part of an agile team, you'll own technical decisions on architecture, APIs, and infrastructure - maintaining production excellence, communicating trade-offs clearly, and mentoring engineers.
What they're looking for
- You have 7+ years of professional backend experience (10+ preferred), including time at a senior or staff level in a product-driven environment
- You are proficient in Python with strong experience in Django and/or FastAPI
- You've worked on offline-first or unreliable-network sync, including optimistic updates, queue-and-replay, and conflict resolution
- You have hands-on experience with SQL databases like PostgreSQL (schema design, query optimization)
- You've worked with at least one message broker or streaming platform (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and understand delivery semantics (ordering, idempotency, retries)
- You reach for the right data structures and algorithms when they matter for correctness or performance, and you know when not to over-engineer
More about this role
The mission of the Senior Backend Engineer is to design, build, and operate the backend services powering Super Dispatch's platform for carriers and shippers in the U.S. vehicle transportation industry. As part of an agile team, you'll own technical decisions on architecture, APIs, and infrastructure - maintaining production excellence, communicating trade-offs clearly, and mentoring engineers.
Super Dispatch's backend runs vehicle shipments end to end, with much of the work happening in background and event-driven flows. You'll take on problems like:
- Architecture and refactoring — reshaping core services and data models as the product grows, and paying down tech debt without stalling delivery.
- Reliable background processing — making our task and worker pipelines safe under failure so jobs aren't dropped, lost, or double-processed.
- Resilient partner integrations — keeping outbound integrations reliable under failure, with sensible retries and idempotency.
- Endpoint and query performance — profiling and optimizing slow endpoints and database queries as data and traffic grow.
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