Amper is an early-stage, VC‑backed SaaS technology company on a mission to modernize manufacturing from the ground up. Our platform is designed to transform legacy shop‑floor complexity into actionable intelligence that empowers teams across the plant to run operations on reality, and help manufacturers reduce costs, increase visibility, and drive efficiency.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional experience building and maintaining complex software systems, with significant time spent on a B2B SaaS platform product.
- Deep technical expertise in developing both large APIs and smaller microservices, with a proven ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs and guide others through implementation.
- Advanced proficiency in Python (or another modern object-oriented language) with the ability to produce clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Extensive experience with relational databases, including performance tuning, query optimization, and applying strategies like sharding or schema redesign when appropriate.
- Strong working knowledge of distributed systems, including containerization, message queues, and parallel processing, along with the ability to apply these concepts in production environments.
- Full-stack development experience, with deeper expertise and enjoyment working on the back end while remaining comfortable contributing to front-end development (React) when needed.
- Experience delivering solutions across platforms, including web and mobile, with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- continue building our customer-facing and internal products.
- build large APIs as well as microservices.
- write a lot of Python.
- build for the web and for mobile.
- working through the challenges of distributed systems
- tuning a single database query because we need that extra bit of performance.
- help us work through new ideas and figure out the best way to implement them.
Other
- We support remote work but have a strong preference for candidates located in the Chicagoland area who are open to coming into the office for in-person collaboration.
- Being a Senior Software Engineer at Amper also means being a “product person.”
- Have a strong appetite for the unfamiliar; that includes technical content as well as solving problems our customers face
- Believe that being helpful and humble are just as important as technical know-how
- Can teach the things you know well, and acknowledge what you can learn from others
