Python Backend Developer

Skills

Design large scalable systems within a team; making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability. Lead build test and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements; these features could be related to market data trading accounting authentication or security. Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the product. Collaborate with our frontend team to fine tune our REST API and with our data team to support millions of customers. Contribute to open source projects.

Description

ou will support one of three engineering organizations:

Product

Responsible for the end-to-end user experience. Our teams are product-aligned, and have engineers from across the stack working together to ship high quality products. Strong partnerships with product and design are at the core.
Data

Building products and infrastructure to collect, clean, and organize datasets. We make informed decisions about user-facing products as well as internal systems, often by using mathematics and statistics to extract insights about uncertain processes. .
Infrastructure

Providing the infrastructure for our products as well as ensuring developer velocity and system stability. Our work spans multiple areas including architecture, the software development lifecycle, cloud infrastructure, networking, online data processing, reliability and more.

Responsibilities

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• A proven tech lead with experience planning and leading large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team.
• Strong technical grasp and excellent judgment on task prioritizations.
• Able to tackle complex engineering problems that deliver results.
• History of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency.
• Solid understanding of relational databases and transactions.
• Familiar with writing highly concurrent systems.
• Good intuition for REST API design.

Educational Requirements

• Bonus points
• Intimate familiarity of Python/Django or Go
• Proven experience building large scale systems
• Technologies we use
• Python/Django, Go as the main languages and frameworks of choice.
• PostgreSQL as our primary data store.
• Redis and Memcached as our caching layer.
• Celery as our task queue using RabbitMQ.