ARE YOU READY TO TAKE YOUR CAREER TO NEW HEIGHTS? ARE YOU SEEKING A NEW CHALLENGE IN A DYNAMIC SECTOR? This is a very exciting and highly innovative time here at Outside. OUR TRUE NORTH:Outside Interactive, Inc., the premier hub for active lifestyle enthusiasts, offers best-in-class content and experiences to more than 70 million of the world’s most passionate outdoor, wellness, and endurance enthusiasts every month. We inspire a broad and diverse audience to do the activities they love with greater enjoyment, inspiration, and knowledge and are dedicated to making real change in the outdoor and fitness industries. About the Role Join the Foundational Services team as a Senior Backend Engineer! You will own critical infrastructure that powers how users access content across the Outside ecosystem. Every time someone logs in to plan an activity, read a trail report, or go for a ride, you're ensuring they have the right permissions, subscriptions, and entitlements. This is not a support role—you'll architect and build new features that scale to millions of users while mentoring the team around you. What You Will Do Architect and develop critical path features for our subscription and identity management platform, directly impacting user experience across millions of active users. Lead technical design discussions and mentor team members on development best practices, with particular depth in Python, Django, and Django Rest Framework (DRF). Own the full lifecycle of features: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing optimization. Build systems that are so reliable and automated that your team can focus on the next high-impact problem. Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, customer support, and other engineering teams to unblock their roadmaps while maintaining the integrity of our foundational systems. Drive alignment across teams on critical dependencies, technical direction, and roadmap priorities—this is as important as shipping features yourself. Prioritize work based on company revenue needs and long-term platform health. Uphold and improve internal Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets to ensure the Outside ecosystem operates smoothly at scale. This role also entails monthly on-call responsibilities. Drive continuous improvement by identifying performance bottlenecks, optimizing build pipelines, and proactively surfacing reliability issues before they impact users. Approach each challenge with curiosity—dig into why systems fail and how to prevent future incidents. What We're Looking For 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend systems at scale. 4+ years of hands-on experience with Django, Python, and Django Rest Framework (DRF). Proven ability to design and ship features that handle high concurrency and scale reliably. Comfort with asynchronous patterns, API design, and database optimization. Who You Are