Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Deliverability

Front
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 177,900 - 203,700 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["JavaScript","TypeScript","Python","Ruby","Distributed systems","On-call","Product mindset","Architectural decisions"]

Senior backend engineer on the Deliverability team responsible for high-scale, distributed email infrastructure, ingestion, routing, and outbound delivery. You’ll lead architectural decisions, own core services, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems that power customer communications for a leading B2B SaaS platform.

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4 months ago

Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Deliverability

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Job Summary

Senior backend engineer on the Deliverability team responsible for high-scale, distributed email infrastructure, ingestion, routing, and outbound delivery. You’ll lead architectural decisions, own core services, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems that power customer communications for a leading B2B SaaS platform.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as a technical lead on the Deliverability team, driving the architecture and execution of major infrastructure and product projects
  • •Own and improve high-volume email infrastructure and decisioning systems spanning ingestion, routing, and outbound delivery, driving deliverability outcomes at scale
  • •Own key services that power Front and lead architectural evolutions to build for reliability and scale
  • •Collaborate with other systems and infrastructure teams to build upon next-generation architecture
  • •Collaborate closely with product managers, product designers and other engineers to conceptualize, build, and test new product features

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 177,900 - 203,700 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquityParental LeaveLifestyle StipendWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • •Strong experience building and operating high-scale, distributed backend systems
  • •Comfort owning complex systems and making architectural decisions with real production impact
  • •A collaborative, low-ego approach to engineering and cross-team partnerships
  • •Fluency in a dynamic language like Javascript (Typescript), Python, Ruby, or similar
Experience:3+ yearsSaaSB2B
Skills:JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonRubyDistributed systemsOn-callProduct mindsetArchitectural decisions
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonRubyAWSSendGridMailGunMandrillSparkPostDNSKafka

Company Brief

Front
Front provides an AI-powered customer service and shared inbox platform that helps teams collaborate on customer communications, automate workflows, and improve support efficiency across email and messaging channels.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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