Software Engineer @ Zyper

Zyper helps brands connect with their fans, and fans connect with each other. Our founder Amber Atherton leveraged a brand community to grow and sell her online jewelry brand, and started Zyper to help other companies do the same. The team started in London in 2017, but quickly moved to Palo Alto to participate in Y Combinators’s Winter 2018 program. As brands like Lyft, Unilever, and Dior used Zyper to grow, the company attracted the attention of top investors like Forerunner Ventures and Talis Capital. Today, Zyper is a distributed team of 30 people. While our HQ is in San Francisco, our product and engineering team members live in Oakland, NYC, Colombia, Portugal, and Romania. You’ll work on our Brands Team, helping to build the web and data experience that brands use to scale their communities. You’ll also develop internal tools that let us leverage recommendations and analytics from our data science team. We use AWS and Heroku to run backend and API services. We have workers to run collections, monitoring and batch processing (on EC2), and use Python (Django) as the foundation for our web API. This role will split its time between feature development and dev-ops work. Because you will be the first person on the team with extensive dev-ops experience, we are looking for someone who owns decisions about scaling infrastructure and improving developer experience.