Senior Back End Engineer - Python

Title: Senior Back End Engineer - Python

Location: Remote

This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, ID, AZ, TX, IL

Must-Haves

Python Experience 4 years minimum and at a high level of applications side

Messaging technologies: Kafka strongly preferred

Data: MySQL, AWS RDS

Service-oriented architecture: GraphQL, REST

Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD

Nice-To-Haves

Capable of delivering small-to-medium features all the way through from technical design to launch with no guidance.

AWS technologies: EKS / EC2, RDS

Search: Elastic Search

Observability: DataDog, Sentry, New Relic, and other

Other tools: GitHub, JIRA, Slack, Confluence

Job Description

The Senior Backend Engineer, Catalog acts as a senior member of a group of passionate engineers to help us create software and services for the client catalog. As a technical subject matter expert, this role is instrumental in driving our catalog technology vision forward and evangelizing development and testing practices that drive Client catalog transformation and growth strategies. Requires great ability to multi-task across projects as well as to adapt to different areas of the code where previous knowledge, skills, and experience may not exist. This role provides strong technical leadership and mentorship to develop the capabilities of other team members. This role motivates and fosters collaboration across the teams.

What You'll Accomplish

Acts in a senior-level capacity for the technical development and delivery of features within the Client catalog, coordinating with Product, UX, QA, and other teams.

Provides senior-level technical expertise in the evaluation, conceptualization, design and development of features.

Develops and maintains software following an Agile/Scrum methodology.

Participates at a senior level in the breakdown of stories into technical design and implementation tasks and participates in sprint planning and other scrum methodologies, including estimation and prioritization of development efforts.

Drives for continuous improvement in performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, and usability of features.

Works with privacy and security teams to ensure proper architecture and maintenance.

Follows accessibility practices in the development of software.

Communicates effectively with tech and non-tech members, and is capable of delivering feedback to peers and their lead.

Coaches and mentors other engineers while still maintaining deep individual and team-level contributions.

Exemplifies how to write and review code and act on data feedback to decide what to build next.

Monitors and supports health of features in production.

Develops a working knowledge of tertiary domains. What You'll Contribute

Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience.

5+ years related work experience.

Preferred technical skills - required when noted. We will consider candidates who have some or all of these skills.:

Python expertise (required)

Messaging technologies: Kafka strongly preferred

Data: MySQL, AWS RDS

Service-oriented architecture: GraphQL, REST

Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD

AWS technologies: EKS / EC2, RDS

Search: ElasticSearch

Observability: DataDog, Sentry, New Relic, other

Other tools: GitHub, JIRA, Slack, Confluence

Capable of delivering small-to-medium features all the way through from technical design to launch with no guidance.

Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.

Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members.

Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from stakeholders

Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required.

Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas