Backend Engineer - Django/Flask & SQLAlchemy (Remote)

Job description

Fulfils software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions of customer orders are fulfilled by merchants. Our products need to handle information at a massive scale. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas into our technology.

As a senior software engineer, you will work on our python-based ORM and applications that scale to handle millions of transactions every hour. This is mission-critical software and your primary focus will be building robust and scalable solutions that are easy to maintain.

In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the rest of the team working on different layers of infrastructure in an international environment. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and quality products are important.

What Youll Do:

• Own definition and implementation of API interfaces (REST and GraphQL). We take pride in our 100% open API with over 600 endpoints.
• Implement simple solutions to complex business logic that enable our merchants to manage financials, orders and shipments across millions of transactions.
• Build reusable components and packages for future use.
• Translate specs and user stories into reviewable, test-covered patches.
• Peer review code and refactor existing code.
• Integrate with our eCommerce partners (Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon), shipping partners (UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL) and EDI.
• Manage Kubernetes and Docker-based global deployment of our infrastructure.

Job requirements

We’re Looking for Someone With:

• Experience working with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django (5+ years)
• Experience with SQL and databases (Postgres preferred)
• Experience in developing large server-side applications and microservices
• Ability to create high-quality code
• Experience with Python testing tools (pytest) and test automation
• Familiarity with code versioning tools like GIT
• Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality
• Experienced in the tools of our web stack
• Python
• Celery
• Postgres
• Redis
• RabbitMQ

Nice to Haves:

• Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software Company
• Experience with Google Cloud, Heroku, etc.
• Cloud deployment and scaling experience