Sekel Tech - Senior Backend Developer - Python/Django (4-7 yrs)

Requirements :

- 4-7 years of software engineering experience, including solid understanding of standard data structures and algorithms

- Knowledge of computer science fundamentals; Web Development experience with Object oriented design and development experience

- Bachelor or Master's degree in computer science or a related technical field or comparable experience

- Experience on Django and Python

- Expertise in Python backend web-development

- Good understanding of Python related libraries and frameworks

- Asynchronous background tasks tools (Celery or Django Q for example)

- Relational database knowledge specifically PostgreSQL

- Hands on experience of API development & integrations, business services and REST APIs.

- Knowledge of API testing tools like RestClient, Postman, SOAPUI is a plus.

- Proficient understanding of build tools and code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN/Bitbucket

- Ability to review specifications documents and provide technical inputs on successfully implementing business solutions

- Good understanding of browser development tools and performance optimization

- Ability to work independently or with a team and lead a project to completion

- Self-motivated with outstanding interpersonal skills, strong work ethic, and excellent communication and presentation skills

- Self-starter with strong work ethic with a passion for problem-solving

- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

- Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities :

- Works with product team to understand project requirements

- Build reusable code and libraries for future use

- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability

- Technical documentation - Designing architecture, flow diagrams, documenting technical implementation approaches and pseudocode

- Device strategies, or innovative approaches that have significant impact on the application design

- Set and evolve standards and best practices for our application development team - Conduct code reviews and enforce standards

- Oversee development process compliance and CI activities

- Participate in the agile feature/product design process working with cross-functional teams including

- Write domain specific automated unit tests Strong plus

- Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform and Google App Engine a huge plus

- Building REST API or other server tools with backed technologies, such as Node.js

- Vue.js, Kubernetes, Docker, Firebase

- Experience Working on Agile Teams and using Application Lifecycle

Management tools like Jira :

- Product Management, Experience Design, QA and Operations

- Collaborate with other engineers to share best practices and knowledge of emerging technologies

- Engage with customers to get a first-hand understanding of their needs