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 Skills :
• 5+ years of solid coding experience working in Python
• 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 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