Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Responsibilities:

Writes code & tests and pushes to production independently.

Reviews code, providing valuable improvements for the team.

Designs system-level code and delivers significant team-level projects.

Creates and executes unit test plans.

Develops detailed technical analysis and design specifications based on functional requirements.

Investigates and resolves defects.

Participates in functional and technical specification reviews.

Participates in creating and executing integration level test plans.

Monitor services and systems within our infrastructure.

Works effectively across multiple teams to deliver large projects.

Mentors more junior developers.

Continuously improve the architecture methodologies and find ways to improve code design, system performance, high scalability and security vulnerabilities.

Your qualifications & experience

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent 8 years experience.

5-8 years in professional software development.

Proven mastery of at least one OO programming language.

In-depth knowledge of networking, databases, data structures, algorithms, cloud computing, security, code design, distributed systems and testing.

Understands how to build solutions at scale without increasing technical debt.

In-depth understanding of coding best practices, system scalability, security and performance tuning.

Solid experience in relational databases.

Solid experience in issue tracking systems.

Bonus points

Flask / Django

PHP (Laravel)

A JavaScript framework (Node.js, Vue.js)

Elastic Search

MySQL

Google BigQuery

Linux fundamentals

Docker / Kubernetes

Event driven architectures (PubSub/Kafka)

Experience with e-commerce based applications

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