Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack LocationRemoteEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeRemoteDepartmentProduct & EngineeringNote for all engineering roles: With the rise of fake applicants and AI-enabled candidate fraud, we have built in additional measures throughout the process to identify such candidates and remove them.About UsPeople Data Labs (PDL) is the provider of people and company data. We do the heavy lifting of data collection and standardization so our customers can focus on building and scaling innovative, compliant data solutions. Our sole focus is on building the best data available by integrating thousands of compliantly sourced datasets into a single, developer-friendly source of truth. Leading companies across the world use PDL’s workforce data to enrich recruiting platforms, power AI models, create custom audiences, and more.We are looking for individuals who can balance extreme ownership with a “one-team, one-dream” mindset. Our customers are trying to solve complex problems, and we only help them achieve their goals as a team. Our Delivery and API Team ensures our customers have access to standardized and high-quality data to build upon.You will be crucial in accelerating our efforts to build standalone data products that enable data teams and independent developers to create innovative solutions at massive scale. In this role, you will be working with a team to continuously improve our existing APIs and delivery methods, as well as creating new ones.If you are looking to be part of a team discovering the next frontier of data-as-a-service (DaaS) with a high level of autonomy and opportunity for direct contributions, this might be the role for you. We like our engineers to be thoughtful, quirky, and willing to fearlessly try new things. Failure is embraced at PDL as long as we continue to learn and grow from it.Roles and ResponsibilitiesDrive our self-serve product offerings to bring prospective customers into our products and grow new revenueDrive the core tools that our customer success team uses to support our customersUnderstand and translate our business requirements into the systems that support our core business activitiesProactively work with stakeholders to clarify ambiguities in business operations and system designDesign and update our systems using good design patterns on both frontend and backend, which allow for extensibility and evolution as our business evolvesEnsure the integrity (correctness and accuracy) of data captured around key business activities so that we have a reliable source of truth on our operationsBuild and maintain our frontend components, design, and architectureEnsure the quality and reliability of frontend surfaces presented to users and the accuracy and effectiveness of the application stack supporting those surfacesTechnical Requirements5-7+ years of industry experience with clear examples of strategic technical problem-solving and implementationStrong software development fundamentalsExperience working in systems where you’ve had to engage with existing implementation patterns and evolve them over timeBackend Expertise4+ years of experience with Python in a production environmentREST API design and backends such as Node.js, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Rails or similar (note: we are a Python shop primarily)SQL and SQL stores, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or similarFrontend Expertise3+ years of experience with React.js with TypescriptExperience with Next.js (or other React.js frontend frameworks)Experience with Vercel (Nice to have)Experience with frontend testing frameworks and practicesHigh attention to detail coupled with a strong understanding of CSS fundamentals; experience using Tailwind CSSExperience refining designs with UI/UX designers and while meaningfully contributing to the design and asserting a customer-centric perspectiveExperience building and maintaining a UI component libraryExperience working with Figma or similar UX design toolsExperience with page-load...