Senior Backend Engineer

Playboy, part of parent company PLBY Group, is the iconic global lifestyle brand that celebrates creative freedom, artistic expression, sexual empowerment and pleasure for all. The company’s core products today are its premium digital creator platform – an exclusive and safe paywall creator platform for the world’s most creative, daring, sexy, fun and thoughtfully rebellious creators, and its global merchandising business. Playboy’s sister company, Honey Birdette, is a rapidly growing luxury lingerie and sexual wellness brand with retail outlets across the US, Australia and Europe.

Building upon Playboy’s long history advocating for personal freedoms, the company has renewed its commitment to women’s empowerment, inclusion and social advocacy integrated into its internal people practices and how it uses its platforms and reach to advance social change.

Who We Seek

Playboy is seeking a dedicated Senior Backend Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will play a major role in designing, implementing, and maintaining SQL databases, RESTful APIs, and back-end systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to create scalable services and facilitate web applications that deliver exceptional user experiences.

What You’ll Do - Job Responsibilities

• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on long-term technology roadmap.
• Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance.
• Develop and oversee testing to maintain integrity of our financial systems at scale.
• Architect and implement systems solutions utilizing both in-house development and alternatives from external vendors.
  
  

What You’ll Bring - Qualifications And Skills

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 6+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Go, or Rust.
• 5+ years of experience contributing to architecture and design of new and current systems.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 5-8 + additional years of relevant work experience.
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithm design.
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure tools, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Timely communication and responsiveness to peers and management.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and build systems, such as CircleCI and GitHub Actions
• Proven experience with Unix/Linux environments
• Must have unrestricted access to work in the U.S.
  
  

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be $140,000 - $200,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance for you and your family
• Generous paid parental leave
• 401k+ matching
• Flexible Time Away
• Professional growth opportunities
  
  

Job Conditions

Candidates understand that PLBY’s brands are focused on creative freedom, artistic expression, and sex positivity. As a result, you understand that the business concept is based partly on sex appeal, nudity, and/or sexual wellness products.

Candidates also acknowledge and understand that before accepting employment with the Company, they have been advised that they may be exposed to: individuals in sexy and/or sexually provocative clothing, either in person or in photographs or videos; lewd and/or obscene language; depictions of lewd, risqué, intimate or explicit acts or behaviors; conversations and discussions about sex, sexuality and the human anatomy; conversations and discussions where vulgar language may be used, and where sexual jokes and innuendo may be expressed in their presence (collectively the “Conduct”).

Candidates acknowledge that they do not find the job duties or work environment as described to them above to be offensive, intimidating, hostile or unwelcome. However, they acknowledge and understand that nothing herein shall prevent them from notifying the Company if they are exposed to conduct of any type, including the Conduct described herein, with which they feel uncomfortable, and that if at any time they are exposed to conduct they find offensive and/or that makes them feel uncomfortable while they are performing their job duties, they agree to immediately contact a manager or People Ops.

Equal Employment Opportunity

This job description has been approved by the Company. Please note this job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature, level, and expectation of the work to be performed. It is not designed to cover a complete list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties and responsibilities or activities associated with this position, as they may change at any time, with or without notice.

PLBY Group is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. The right talent for us innately embodies our values. Come as you are.