SOFTWARE ENGINEER-PYTHON

MOUNTAIN VIEW, california, us on site Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 22, 2025 Last posted March 22, 2025
Job description

Emparty is a fast-growing, early-stage startup in Mountain View, CA, that is making the process of planning parties and events (small corporate events, birthdays, graduations, showers, holiday parties, etc.) easier, faster, and a lot more fun. It’s basically a marketplace for venues and vendors, with some twists.

The company was founded in February 2018 by former leaders from Avis, eBay, and Oak Labs. We just closed our first round of funding from two top-tier investors, and we already have a long and growing list of customers lined up to use the service. (For real. We’re not kidding. The pressure is on.)

We are looking for a software engineer to join the team, and help build the technology to tie thousands of reservation calendars together in one spot. It’s one of those technical problems is simple at first, but starts to look NP-complete, the more you stare at it.

You would be joining a small team of capable engineers to build the back-end systems that power the Emparty Marketplace, such as calendar inventory management, search & discovery, money movement, and the client-facing API.

Responsibilities

• Work with the engineering team to design back-end architecture

• Implement back-end systems for Emparty’s marketplace

• Develop black-box and white-box tests for both your own and others’ code

• Work cross-functionally with front-end developers to implement API endpoints

• Proactively identify and automate time-intensive business and engineering processes

• Help to cultivate Emparty’s engineering culture: we are still a young company

Requirements

• 2+ years as an individual contributor in an engineering role

• Proficiency in Python

• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes

• Significant experience with Google Cloud Platform

• Experience with software planning systems like Pivotal Tracker

• Experience with git

• Experience with GraphQL

• Experience with RFCs 2445 and 5545 (iCalendar) a plus

You must be able to work in our Mountain View, California, office. (Technically it’s Palo Alto, but near 101 and San Antonio.) Remote workers will not be considered, so don’t even ask. At this time, Emparty is unable to provide relocation assistance or visa support.

Emparty is dedicated to diversity, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About this role

Summary

Develop backend systems for marketplace, APIs, calendar management, and automation.

Job title

SOFTWARE ENGINEER-PYTHON

Experience level

2+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Must work onsite in Mountain View, no remote allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

pythondockerkubernetesgoogle cloud platformgitgraphql

Preferred skills

rfc 2445rfc 5545icalendar

Specializations

pythondockerkubernetesgoogle cloud platformgraphql
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Mountain View, CA, USA

On-site City