Senior Python Backend Engineer

Job description

• Develop features and improvements to the Collectly product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Collaborate with Founders and Core Team (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
• Represent Collectly and its values in public communication around specific projects.
• Ship small and midsized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

Job requirements

• Significant professional experience with Python, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery.
• At least basic algorithms and data structure knowledge.
• Understanding of race conditions and how to mitigate them by crafting concurrent code.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and / or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems, including SQL.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.
• Ability to use GitLab.