Back-End Developer

• Develop features in a secure, well-tested, and scalable way
• Collaborate with the product team and other stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Suggest improvements in product quality, security, and performance
• Solve complex technical problems and craft code that meets the internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale environment
• Recognize bottlenecks in the platform, propose and implement solutions
• Ship features with minimal guidance and support from fellow team members
• Collaborate with the team on large projects
• Participate in troubleshooting product and security operations, and urgent engineering issues

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor s/Master s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3+ years of relevant experience as a back-end developer
• Extensive experience with Python
• Prior experience working with serverless applications
• Demonstrated capacity to communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose iterative solutions
• Working experience solving performance and optimization problems
• Comfortable working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Prior experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Nice-to-have experience in a peak-performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Developer platform/tool industry experience is a plus
• Passionate about open source and developer tools
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Fluent in verbal and written English