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