Job Summary:
Paperless Parts is a SaaS startup helping manufacturers quote faster and win more work. The Senior Software Engineer will play a crucial role in building solutions that power manufacturing shops, working across the full stack to design backend services and user-facing experiences.
Responsibilities:
• Build Across the Stack: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, high-performance features spanning Python backends and React frontends.
• Design APIs: Develop robust, secure, versioned APIs that enable seamless integration and data access.
• Apply AI Across the SDLC: Use AI tools fluently across the software development lifecycle — planning, coding, testing, review, and documentation — develop effective patterns for AI-assisted work, and share what works with the team.
• Solve Complex Problems: Tackle deeply technical challenges across the stack, balancing trade-offs to deliver secure, compliant solutions that meet our customers’ needs.
• Champion Engineering Excellence: Advance our practices — testing, observability, code review, and context-first documentation — so our codebase stays high-quality, performant, and legible to both humans and AI agents.
• Mentor and Grow Talent: Share your expertise with less experienced engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver products that exceed customer expectations.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience delivering impactful software, with strong object-oriented fundamentals.
• Proficiency in a modern backend web stack, such as Python/Django or FastAPI, Node/Express, or Java/Spring.
• Hands-on frontend experience with TypeScript and React, building and maintaining production user interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, designing and deploying scalable, resilient cloud architectures.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, with a clear sense of when to use each.
• Strong experience with API design, development, documentation, and versioning.
• Expertise building and deploying applications with Docker and CI/CD tooling like Jenkins.
• Practical experience using AI coding tools in a real engineering workflow, with sound judgment about where they help and where they don’t.
• Strong communication skills, conveying complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Company:
Paperless Parts is a manufacturing intelligence company building a new type of marketplace for custom parts. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Boston, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.