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• In this role, you will help grow our microservices and API layer which sit atop our Big Data infrastructure
• We are passionate about building distributed back-end systems in a modular and reusable way
• we're looking for people who have a shared passion for data and desire to build cool, maintainable and high-quality applications to use this data
• In this role you will participate in shaping our technical architecture, design and development of software products, collaborate with back-end developers from other tracks, research and evaluation of new technical solutions, and helping to elevate the skills of more junior developers

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, testing and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle large amounts of data
• Growing our API layer author, update, and debug API microservices; contribute to API design and architecture
• Perform code reviews and provide leadership and guidance to junior developers
• Ability to learn and teach new technologies

Qualifications

• 5+ years of solid coding experience working in Python Demonstrated proficiency with RESTful APIs (data caching, JWT auth, API load testing, RAML), and production use of a python API framework Fluency with Linux/Unix Systems and in bash
• Excellent grasp of microservices, containers (Docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes), serverless computing (AWS Lambda) and distributed/scalable systems
• Proven history of mentoring junior developers to improve overall team effectiveness
• Passion for writing good documentation and creating architecture diagrams
• Experience processing and analyzing large data sets
• Extensive history working with data and databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery) Rigorous approach to testing (unit testing, functional testing, integration testing)
• Understanding of critical API security best practices Ability to profile, identify, debug, and fix performance bottlenecks in application and database layers with modern tooling
• Strong proficiency in conducting PR reviews and helping to maintain a high-quality code base
• Knowledge of git, with understanding of branching, how to manage conflicts, and pull requests