Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Python)

Description

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Your way to impact

You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest payments platforms that caters to 65 million active users and processes transactions worth billions of dollars. Given all the fun challenges, we are a fast-paced organization going through rapid growth that is solving technical challenges at exponential scale. As an organization, we have a strong culture of committing to goals and delivering on timelines.

Your day to day

In your day to dayrole you will

Key voice in team level processes (e.g., code & design review)

Oversees projects, ensuring an accurate, complete, and operable solution is delivered, working with management as needed to fill gaps

Collaborates with product managers to understand & refine requirements

Serves as an expert to resolve technical inquiries of other employees

Follows wellestablished internal conventions and standard procedures

Shares software development processes and standards with junior peers

Leverages awareness of industry peer solutions to inform and validate technical decisions

Anticipates consequences of implementation choices on future development and optimizes accordingly

Contributes to code & design

Has an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.

What do you need to bring-

Bachelor’s and / or Masters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience

5 plus years’ experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language

Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging / queuing protocols / systems such as SQS / Kafka / RabbitMQ / Pulsar

Competency in comparing the qualities of multiple implementation choices, including nonfunctional characteristics.

Mentor junior engineers

Understands runtime environment concepts (e.g Linux OS, Java Virtual Machine, python runtime) and behavior and can incorporate to predict performance characteristics of implementation choices.

Experience with distributed services and backend systems

Experience with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS. Alternatives, GCP, Azure

Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform

Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.

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