Sr Backend Developer

Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product

Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems

Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team

Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements

5+ years of software development experience

Strong computer science fundamentals

Deep and wide knowledge of Python ecosystem

Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant

Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests

Good intuition for REST API design

Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling

Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems

Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries