Zumper is on a mission to revolutionize the rental industry by making renting an apartment as easy as booking a hotel. With millions of users every month, we've generated support from top-tier investors and have raised $150 million to date. To help us bring our vision to life, we're searching for bright, passionate, and hard-working people to join our rapidly-growing team and build extraordinary products.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to write the code that underpins every single company initiative, critical to every new product, and have a massive impact on technology choices and product direction. You'll write the core services and APIs used across multiple platforms and two major brands (Zumper and Padmapper), and help craft the next generation of apartment finding technology!

What You'll Be Doing

• Help guide and drive the platform into the future
• Care and growth of an extensive JSON API used by the website as well as native apps
• Partner integrations (parsing incoming data feeds, syndicating content out)
• Scoping, architecting, modeling and implementing new features
• Third party integrations
• Scam prevention via machine learning
• Internal tools and reporting
• Help scale and develop our growing AWS infrastructure
• Day-to-day Postgres administration as well as query optimization, horizontal partitioning, and reliability

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of industry experience or equivalent
• Self motivated do-er of things and solver of problems
• Familiarity with at least one Python ORM library 
• Robust knowledge of SQL especially on Postgres
• Query optimization, general performance evaluation/tuning
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs (use and implementation thereof)
• Familiarity and experience with asynchronous programming
• Comfortable (if not fluent) behind a unix terminal
• Third party API integrations

Bonus Stuff

• Django
• SQLAlchemy
• AWS (EC2, EMR, S3, SQS, SES, etc)
• Node.js
• Nginx
• Other programming languages (Javascript, Java, Go, Bash)

What We Offer

• Great medical, dental, vision insurance options with 90-100% employee premium coverage
• 401k plan + 3% company match
• Stock options
• Flexible vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
• $150 mass transit/rideshare stipend
• $65/month gym reimbursement
• Catered meals and stocked kitchen with coffee, snacks and beverages
• Team retreats every quarter
• Team happy hours
• Weekly insight into all major company metrics
• Up to 12-weeks of paid parental leave
• Quarterly Hackathons (not overnight!) 

What We Value

• Be Resilient: Work hard, while displaying passion, perseverance and commitment
• Continuously Improve: Be intellectually curious, problem solve, and move quickly while producing quality results
• Collaborate: Work well with others, share knowledge and contribute positively to culture and work environment

We are a diverse bunch of people at Zumper and we want to attract and retain a diverse group of people into our team. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race. 

Let's make something amazing together.

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