

Backend Software Engineer II
Job Description
Procurify is looking for a motivated, collaborative, and creative person who is passionate about technology to join our SpendSight team as a Backend Software Engineer II. The team is tackling interesting and challenging opportunities, providing insight for our customers so they can make informed and effective decisions for their business.
You’re someone who loves the satisfaction of removing complexity from a system. Not just building new software, but improving the architecture and implementation of the code that your team owns. You’re comfortable working with low-level data structures of the system so that everything we build for our customers rests on top of a solid foundation of performant code.
Responsibilities
Apply your experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
Implement new, robust systems, including business intelligence, budgeting, and reporting capabilities. Provide the right information to our customers, empowering them to make the best spending decisions for their organization.
Contribute to improving the implementation and architecture of the backend code.
Strengthen the technical output of your team and contribute backend technical designs that follow appropriate design patterns, are architecturally sound, and adhere to secure coding practices.
Contribute clean, efficient, testable, and reusable code that is easy to maintain and extend and aligns with our technical strategy and coding standards.
Participate in code reviews and contribute to your team’s efforts to deliver high-quality code, share knowledge and learnings, and provide relevant feedback.
Participate in the investigation and resolution of defects, degraded performance, and any other issues affecting the quality of the code your team owns.
Understand the observability and monitoring of relevant system behavior in the areas of the application owned by your team and how the data collected could be used to identify improvements to application performance and stability.
Be curious and learn continuously–keep up-to-date with industry trends and advancements and contribute to the combined knowledge of your team through your feedback.
Job Requirements
2+ years of Software Engineering experience with a focus in web application development in Python using frameworks like Django, FastAPI, Flask, etc.
Experience working within a team of software engineers to build reliable and scalable SaaS software solutions and RESTful APIs.
Experience working with relational database technologies such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Exposure to refactoring, maintaining, and improving existing solutions.
Experience working with agile and software delivery best practices such as scrum/kanban, CI/CD, test automation, and infrastructure as code.
Able to work with a moderate degree of autonomy and demonstrate initiative.
Solid problem-solving, technical design, and analytical skills.
Strong teamwork and communication with other software engineers, leadership, and others in the organization with less technical backgrounds.
Acts with compassion and empathy for others. Believes that your team’s success is your success.