Senior Back-End Engineer

Overview of the Role

We are looking for a great senior python engineer to join our engineering team. Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain robust, scalable, high-quality software.
• Write highly organized, maintainable code.
• Solve difficult problems while continuously learning and improving.
• Implement security and data protection.
• Design and implement storage solutions.
• Provide guidance to more junior engineers.

Desired Skills and Experience

Must have

• Extensive Python knowledge.
• Experience with Django.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Strong unit test and debugging skills.
• Have a working schedule that makes you available during the morning Pacific Time.
• Comfortable working remotely
• Good understanding of software architecture, especially RESTful design

Nice to have

• Past experience creating REST APIs.
• Experience with frontend development (e.g. JavaScript, ReactJS, single-page applications).
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes.

• Familiarity with blue-green deployments, canary releases, feature toggles and other modern deployment techniques.

• Data migration, transformation, and scripting.
• Setup and administration of backups.
• Experience working in a distributed team
• Experience with Scrum or other agile development process.