Job Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for exceptional, experienced professionals passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale.
We are seeking talented individuals to join our team as Backend Developers, developing backend services in Python for a large system of marketplaces.
Our team develops and operates a complex system of backend services that power marketplaces.
Our services are built primarily in Python, with a bit of Golang.
We have exciting challenges ahead including continuing to scale our production architecture, expanding the range of software we can deliver through the system powering our marketplaces, and enhancing our offering for IoT and Enterprise solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate remotely with globally distributed teams.
- Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).
- Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.
- Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
- Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.
- Broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure.
- Able to effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them.
- Familiarity with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
- Strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree.
- Lovely technology and working with diverse sets of talented people.
- Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
- Passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.