Backend Engineer - Python

Key Responsibilities :

- Designing, building, testing and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle large amounts of data

- Growing our API layer : author, update, and debug API microservices; contribute to API design and architecture

- Perform code reviews and provide leadership and guidance to junior developers

- Ability to learn and teach new technologies

Required Skills :

- Demonstrated proficiency with RESTful APIs (data caching, JWT auth, API load testing, RAML), and production use of a python API framework

- Fluency with Linux/Unix Systems and in bash

- Excellent grasp of microservices, containers (Docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes), serverless computing (AWS Lambda) and distributed/scalable systems

- Proven history of mentoring junior developers to improve overall team effectiveness

- Passion for writing good documentation and creating architecture diagrams

- Experience processing and analyzing large data sets. Extensive history working with data and databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery)

- Rigorous approach to testing (unit testing, functional testing, integration testing)

- Understanding of critical API security best practices

- Ability to profile, identify, debug, and fix performance bottlenecks in application and database layers with modern tooling

- Strong proficiency in conducting PR reviews and helping to maintain a high-quality code base

- Knowledge of git, with understanding of branching, how to manage conflicts, and pull requests

Additional Skills :

- Experience with Javascript or other languages (Go, C/C++,) is welcome, but not required. This position requires strong backend development skills, but if you are familiar with contemporary web-application design (Web-components, react,Js) its great

- Knowledge of AWS or other cloud environments (GCP/Azure) a plus

- Passion for data-driven software. All our tools are built on top of data and require work with data