Backend Engineer

Description

Keepsafe is a leader in the consumer privacy space with over 100 million users globally on iOS and Android trusting us. Our flagship photo vault reflects our belief that protecting personal pictures, videos, and important documents on your phone should be simple and foolproof. This year, we’ll develop and launch new offerings allowing people to save and share their data without sacrificing control. 

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Our founders are serial entrepreneurs from Germany who appreciate ambitious and independent thinking, precision, beautiful code, and above all else privacy! We are a fully-remote team with monthly in-person meet-ups. Onboarding will take place in-person in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’re looking for exceptional engineers to define and build the next generation of our consumer privacy mobile product. 

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As an engineer at Keepsafe, you’ll serve millions of people who use our apps daily. You’ll have the opportunity to carry a lot of responsibility and have a direct impact on the company. You’ll work autonomously and design and own a significant part of our codebase. You’ll help the team scale, develop core pieces of infrastructure, and solve hard problems. 

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Our engineering team is at the forefront of security, smart encryption, key management, data transcoding, secure and fast cloud sync, and back-end custom analytics development for the future. You’ll collaborate directly with our product and design teams and work with your peers to make big decisions about how things get done.

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Our Tech Stack

Android - Kotlin

iOS - Swift 5

Python3.x

AWS

DynamoDB

Postgres

Couchbase Server/Lite

Requirements

• Great software engineering skills: code speaks stronger than degrees
• Experience developing in Python 3.x
• Strong knowledge of DevOps fundamentals 
• Appetite for fast product iteration, shipping high quality apps
• Mindset for independent work and ownership of the apps
• Experience or interest in cryptography and security engineering
• Minimum 2 years of full-time related experience

Software Engineering Skills

• Proficiency in backend development using Python.
• Experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of API gateways (AWS API Gateway, Nginx) and rate limiting, authentication, and caching strategies.
• Experience with mobile backend services that support iOS/Android clients (Couchbase Server/Gateway).
• Understanding of database design and optimization (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis,Couchbase).
• Familiarity with push notifications and real-time communication (WebSockets, MQTT, Firebase Cloud Messaging).
• Ability to work with message queues and event-driven architecture (SQS, Pub/Sub).
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs (payment gateways, social auth, analytics, etc.).
• Experience with frontend development (HTML, CSS, JS, Vue.js or other framework) and Zendesk Plugin architecture

DevOps Skills

• Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Solid knowledge of scripting and automation (Python, Bash).
• Experience in monitoring, logging, and alerting (ELK, Datadog).
• Knowledge of networking, security best practices, and identity management (IAM, OAuth, SSO).
• Understanding of microservices architectures and API management.
• Experience working with message queues and event-driven architectures (AWS SQS).
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.).

Extra

• Experience with asynchronous programming in Python (asyncio, aiohttp)
• Experience with application deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, Rolling Updates).
• Familiarity with database management (SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, Redis).
• Experience with Key/Secret Management best practices
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform, Ansible).

Benefits

• Excellent benefits - 100% health care premiums, great dental, vision & family benefits
• 401k with company match
• Remote company: in-person onboarding in San Francisco Bay Area then work from anywhere in the United States. Some required travel throughout the year.
• Stipend for work from home desk setup including phone/internet
• Fast growth in a small, high-performance team
• Can transfer H1B

Equal Opportunity and Accessibility

• We are an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. Individuals of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
• If you require accommodations during the application process, please contact accommodations@getkeepsafe.com.

Application Details

• Please submit your application via 
• Applicants may omit details such as graduation years, dates of attendance, or birth dates to support fair consideration.
• Open until filled

Job Details

• Full-time, exempt position.
• Fully remote within the U.S. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States
• Competitive compensation, salary range: $120k - 150k