Intellias - Senior Python Backend Engineer - Django/Flask (5-10 yrs)

Why Work at Intellias?

Ranked #1 by Forbes for IT Services in Ukraine (#5 across all industries), and 'Employer of Choice for Professionals' by EY. For the past 20 years, our 3,400+ in-house technologists have helped thousands of clients engineer great products and services across 10 offices and delivery locations throughout the world.

Serving a range of company sizes, from Fortune 500 large enterprises to small and medium-sized businesses, including early-stage tech innovators/start-ups, our superior software engineering qualities extend across 11 key industries including Automotive, Transportation/Logistics, Banking/Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom and more.

The company's double-digit growth over the past five years has awarded venture capital investment from Horizon Capital, the largest private equity fund in Ukraine.

Intellias has been featured in the 2019 Global Outsourcing 100 list by IAOP, is recognized by Inc. 5000, and is acknowledged in the GSA UK Awards.

Why join the team?

Here are several aspects of our team and work environment that contribute to a positive and fulfilling experience :

- We work in self-organized teams following Scrum methodology, respecting and valuing everyone- s opinion.

- We learn from each other and share knowledge, through pair programming, code reviews, and many training opportunities.

- We deliver value by developing new features, maintaining existing products and improving all the infrastructure we need for it, so we also would like to have a colleague that likes to be cross-functional.

- We are committed to delivering high-quality products, and believe that continuous delivery, clean code, and a DevOps mindset are key to achieving this goal.

- Our team values a friendly and collaborative environment, and we greatly encourage open communication and teamwork. We believe in a team approach and do not assign blame, instead working together to build and maintain the system.

- We embrace diversity, having colleagues from over 50 countries. This means our working language is English.

What you will do :

- Participate in solution investigation, estimations, planning, and alignment with other teams

- Design, implement, deliver and support backend solutions (restful services) using micro-services architecture

- Work in close collaboration with other teams to integrate their solutions in the mobile apps

- Promote and implement test automation (mainly unit tests and integration tests with an opportunity to contribute to e2e tests and performance tests)

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, development, and deployment.

- Deploy applications on the cloud, using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform.

- Work closely with the team in an agile and collaborative environment. This will involve activities such as code reviews, pair programming, knowledge sharing, and incident coordination.

- Maintain existing applications and reduce technical debt

What we are looking for :

MUST HAVE Qualifications :

- 6+ years of experience with Python development

- Strong expertise in Flask or Django

- Experience working with Microservices and Cloud expertise (AWS, Lambda, RDS, SNS, SQS).

- Experience with relational/non-relational databases.

- Being responsible for the quality of the solution you deliver is natural for you. Focus on automated testing and good experience with different levels of tests (unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests)

- Passionate about writing clean, modular, testable code designed with architectural principles in mind and proper use of design patterns

- Experience with DevOps tools and practices (container orchestration, CI, monitoring and alerting, Terraform)

- You understand the full architectural landscape and are technically able to investigate and implement new features independently

- Experience working within Agile practices and knowledge of Agile values & principles

- You can mentor less experienced colleagues, structure and clarify requirements together

- Empathetic and able to easily build relationships

- Good verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have :

- Experience with Java- and Spring framework

- Experience with TDD approach

- Experience in e-commerce domain

These are some of the technologies/frameworks/practices we use :

- Java 11+, Spring framework

- Python

- CI/CD with Jenkins pipeline

- InfluxDB, Grafana, Sensu, ELK stack

- Docker, Kubernetes

- Amazon Web Services and cloud deployments (S3, SNS, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.), using tools such as Terraform or AWS CLI

- Git, Scrum, Pair Programming, Peer Reviewing