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Salary: USD 160,000 - 180,000 / annual
People Data Labs is a data infrastructure company providing people and company data to leading organizations worldwide. The company integrates thousands of compliantly sourced datasets into a developer-friendly platform used for recruiting enrichment, AI model training, audience creation, and more.
You will join the Delivery and API Team as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, responsible for accelerating the development of standalone data products and enabling data teams and independent developers to build innovative solutions at scale. This role balances individual ownership with collaborative teamwork, requiring you to work across engineering, design, and product to solve complex customer problems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Driving self-serve product offerings to acquire new customers and grow revenue
- Building and maintaining core tools used by the customer success team
- Translating business requirements into robust systems supporting core operations
- Designing and evolving systems using strong design patterns on both frontend and backend
- Ensuring data integrity and reliability across key business activities
- Building and maintaining frontend components, design, and architecture
- Ensuring quality, reliability, and effectiveness of frontend and application stack
- Proactively collaborating with stakeholders to clarify ambiguities in business and system design
The company values thoughtful, quirky engineers willing to fearlessly try new things. Failure is embraced as a learning opportunity. You will have high autonomy and direct impact on product direction.
REQUIREMENTS:
General:
- 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 evolved existing implementation patterns over time
- Must thrive in fast-paced environments and work independently
- Ability to scope, breakdown, and estimate projects effectively with solid delivery track record
- Effective communication of progress and blockers with manager, team, and stakeholders
- Strong written communication skills on Slack/Chat and in documents
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, design, and product management
- Experience writing technical design docs and translating them into projects, milestones, and backlogs
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers
- Ability to ensure and develop solid code quality and development practices within the team
Backend (4+ years required):
- 4+ years of production experience with Python (primary language at PDL)
- Strong REST API design skills: resource modeling, versioning, pagination, error handling, authentication/authorization
- Production experience with backend frameworks (FastAPI, Django, Flask, or similar)
- Deep SQL expertise with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar: schema design, migrations, query performance tuning
- Experience designing for performance and scale: caching strategies, background jobs, task queues, high-volume/long-running workloads
- Well-tested backend code experience (pytest): unit, integration, and API-level tests
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar), containerization (Docker), CI/CD pipelines
- Experience instrumenting and operating services in production: logging, metrics, alerting, debugging live issues
- Experience with search/analytics data stores (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) or large-scale data processing (nice to have)
Frontend (2+ years required):
- 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 customer-centric perspective
- Experience with Vercel, Figma, or working within existing UI component library (nice to have)
