Staff Backend Engineer

STAFF BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER ABOUT US Procurify is the Intelligent Spend Management company. We’re on a mission to give all organizations unprecedented visibility and control over their business spend. Our industry-leading platform unifies data across procurement, AP, and expenses, helping finance and operations teams capture, analyze, and optimize every dollar of spend. We’re a remote-first company backed by leading investors, helping mid-market organizations modernize how they manage spend. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer to help define the architectural future of Procurify’s core platform. In this role, you will lead large technical projects with significant impact, working closely within our Identity, Integrations, Public API, and other cross-cutting domains within Procurify. WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON This is a high leverage role with a clear and broad mandate. You'll partner with engineering leadership and senior ICs across engineering to shape how Procurify scales over the next several years. - Lead Technical Strategy & Architecture: Effectively drive architecture decisions that align with product strategy and advise Procurify's leadership team on critical technical considerations. You will collaborate with your team on technical designs to ensure they follow appropriate patterns, are architecturally sound, and improve the implementation of our backend systems. - Build & Ship Scalable APIs and Services: Apply your experience to design, develop, and maintain the RESTful APIs and backend services that form the foundation of our product, using Python and Django. You will work across the stack to consistently deliver software that helps Procurify set and achieve a high standard of quality, clarity, and maintainability. - Mentor & Elevate the Team: Teach and mentor technical leaders at Procurify. You will actively participate in code reviews and architectural discussions, delivering written and verbal technical feedback to peers to elevate the team. - Design & Optimize Data Systems: Contribute to the design of our database models and write efficient, secure queries, ensuring the performance and integrity of our data layer. - Ensure Operational Excellence: Participate in the investigation and resolution of defects and performance bottlenecks affecting the quality and stability of the monolith. You will champion code quality and contribute to a high-performance team committed to craft and operational excellence. - Our Tech Stack: - Application: Python/Django, Typescript/React - Cloud: AWS - Infrastructure & Containers: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform - Databases: MySQL - CI/CD: CircleCI LEAD WITH CARES: - Commitment: Demonstrates accountability and follow-through, delivering reliably and owning outcomes in a way that others can depend on. - Ambition: Takes initiative with curiosity and a growth mindset, pursuing bold ideas that elevate impact and performance. - Resilience: Shows adaptability, composure, and perseverance through challenges, staying focused and effective in a fast-changing environment. - Excellence: Brings rigor, collaboration, and a strong quality focus to deliver high-performing solutions and raise the bar for outcomes. - Simplicity: Applies focus, clarity, and streamlining to cut through complexity and enable efficient, impactful execution. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Senior Engineering Experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on building reliable and scalable SaaS software solutions. - Python Proficiency: Strong experience building and maintaining applications using Python and a major web framework (we use Django and FastAPI). - AI Native Modern SaaS Experience: Experience building scalable, customer-facing SaaS products using modern technologies. You must have practical, hands-on experience accelerating development with AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot. - Strategic Leadership: Experience leading large technical projec