Sr. Python Backend Engineer (Work From Home)

Position Description:

The Python Backend Engineer is a technical role responsible for a broad range of development tasks. The overall objective of this role is to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in the context of web applications on a cloud infrastructure.

We’re looking for leaders. You will be required to plan, architect, build and maintain APIs for data extraction and machine learning model inference tasks (MLOps). You will be expected to work on scripting backends, databases, CI/CD, containers, and other dev related tasks. We will need someone who is a flexible self-starter that has experience delivering impactful results with a team.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Architects, Developers, QA, DevOps and Product Owners to solve complex problems
• Be a founding and contributing member of our full-stack development team
• Attend daily stand-up meetings with development team and demo your work each week
• Thrive in an agile, fast-paced environment
• Maintain development and production environments and properly deploy changes

**For out of area applicants, this job may be performed remotely from your home**

Qualifications for Success:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Software Engineer
• Strong experience with Python, Serverless
• Strong experience with designing JSON schemas
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services. Cloudwatch, Lambda, Dynamo, API Gateway, S3, SES, SQS, SNS, RDS
• Strong experience creating APIs from scratch
• Solid knowledge of Database technologies (Dynamo, PostgreSQL, SQL) and database schema design and development
• Strong experience with logs and ability to troubleshoot efficiently
• Strong experience with version source control (Git)
• Strong experience with CI/CD, devops, containers
• Experience with documenting code
• Team oriented

Bonus:

• MLOps experience
• ETL Pipeline experience
• Team leadership
• JIRA experience

Physical Demands:

The physical demands of the position are typical of those found in a traditional office environment. Employee will not need to walk significant distances nor lift substantial weight. Employee will need to be able to remain seated at a desk for 8-9 hours in a typical workday.

Conclusion:

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.