Backend Engineer

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 well develop and launch new offerings allowing people to save and share their data without sacrificing control.

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. Were looking for exceptional engineers to define and build the next generation of our consumer privacy mobile product.

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

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. Youll collaborate directly with our product and design teams and work with your peers to make big decisions about how things get done.

We are proud to have open sourced some of our work on our Github page. Some selected projects were proud of are:

- aiohttp a HTTP Client/Server for Pythons asyncio

- ReLinker a robust native library loader for Android

- TapTargetView an implementation of tap targets from the Material Design guidelines for feature discovery

- dexcount-gradle-plugin for showing dex method counts per app build

- android-resource-remover for removing unused resources from your Android project

- MultiStateAnimation Android library to create complex multi-state animations

- Switchboard a mobile A/B testing framework

Our Tech Stack

Android - Kotlin

iOS - Swift 5

Python3.x

AWS

DynamoDB

Postgres

Couchbase Server/Lite

About Keepsafe

Keepsafe protects your personal space. Our mission is to make privacy and security an era thats overvalued sharing privacy is the new freedom.

Our flagship product Keepsafe Photo Vault has been downloaded by close to 100 million people all across the globe and is a leader in the consumer app subscription business.

• 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 RedisCouchbase).
• 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 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).

• 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

• 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

Application Details

• Please submit your application via our website

• 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