About this opportunity
We’re hiring a mid-level fullstack engineer to own customer-facing features across our Django backend and React/TypeScript web apps, from implementation through production. You’ll partner with product, design, data and analytics, and other engineers to ship reliable, maintainable product experiences and the services that support them. This is a product engineering role with shared responsibility for deployment, observability, and production support.
This role reports to our Sr. Engineering Manager.
What you'll do
Ship customer-facing features end-to-end across our Django backend and React/TypeScript web apps, including schema and API work, UI development, automated tests, and rollout
Partner with product, design, data science, and engineering to scope work, make pragmatic technical tradeoffs, and shape requirements when needed
Improve service reliability and delivery through instrumentation, monitoring, and CI/CD automation
Contribute to the systems and tooling used to deploy and operate your services, using Unix and scripting tools to troubleshoot issues and automate routine work
Review code and contribute to technical design discussions, with a focus on maintainability, performance, and reliability
Use AI coding tools as a regular part of your workflow and contribute to Zumper’s homegrown AI agent platform
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, help triage and resolve production incidents, and contribute to postmortems and follow-up improvements
What You'll Work With
Backend: Python, Django, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, REST/JSON APIs serving web and native clients
Frontend: React, Redux, TypeScript, server-side rendering
Mobile: Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, Swift with SwiftUI
Services & platform: Node.js services, AWS including EC2, S3, SQS, Fastly, Nomad, and Grafana
Workflow: Git, CI/CD, code review, and automated testing
Who you are
3+ years of professional fullstack engineering experience shipping production applications, including APIs built with Python, Django, and PostgreSQL and user interfaces built with React and TypeScript
Fluency with Git, automated testing, and CI/CD, including the ability to investigate failed builds or deployments and contribute to reliable deployment workflows
Practical experience supporting cloud-hosted production services, preferably in AWS, with comfort using Unix/Linux and Python, Bash, or another scripting language to troubleshoot systems and automate routine work
Experience with configuration management and infrastructure tooling, such as SaltStack or another configuration management system, and with one or more HashiCorp tools, including Terraform, Consul, Nomad, or Vault
Working knowledge of HTTP, DNS, load balancing, CDNs, and reverse proxies, with hands-on experience in technologies such as AWS ELB/ALB, Nginx, HAProxy, or CloudFront
Experience using logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts to understand service health, plus participation in an on-call rotation or equivalent production-support responsibility
Regular hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent as part of your development workflow
Bonus Skills
Deeper platform experience with AWS, containers or orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, or configuration-management tooling
Experience with marketplace, two-sided, or proptech products, or with Node.js services
Compensation
The US base salary range for this role is $120,000–$150,000. Where an offer falls within that range depends on your experience, skills, and the cost of labor in your local market — we benchmark against several U.S. geographic tiers and adjust accordingly.
What we offer
Fully remote, with a home office stipend to set up your workspace
Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance options with up to 100% premium coverage
401k plan + 3% company match
Stock options
FSAs, HSAs, life insurance, and short & long-term disability insurance
Up to 12-weeks of paid parental leave
Flexible vacation policy - work hard and take time off when you need it
Health & wellness and internet reimbursements
Group training and individual professional development programs
Team activities, virtual company-wide hosted games, and virtual happy hours
Weekly insight into company metrics
Employee Resource Group (zERG) that celebrates all communities - Black, LGBTQIA+, Women, Asian & Pacific Islanders, and more! zERG works together to create safe spaces for candid conversations
Hackathons (not overnight!)