19092540949 - Python Backend Engineer

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

This is an individual contributor role with opportunity to grow into leadership roles as we scale. You will report to the CTO and build out our core infrastructure. The basic architecture is already set up, we need help building out and expanding our coverage of blockchains and various protocols. You will also have significant input on how the product will evolve. But please, leave your ego at the door (we have no doors, so you’ll have to be creative about it).

Requirements

• Have at least 3-5 years of development experience in Python, contributing to mission critical production systems. 
• Familiarity with FastAPI and SQLAlchemy is a plus.
• Have strong coding standards and familiarity with operating in an Unix environment.
• Experience designing backend REST APIs.
• Experience building and supporting complex, scalable, distributed, event-driven, microservices-based applications with 3rd party service integrations.

• Experience with relational database schema design, transactions, isolation levels.
• Working experience with Postgres is a plus. DB admin experience is a double plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure: Cloud Formation, RDS / Aurora / Postgres, EKS, EC2, VPC, Networking, Lambda, SQS
• Experience setting up and supporting Kubernetes clusters is a big plus
• DevOps, Networking, Linux shell scripting
• Infrastructure-as-code - automated infrastructure management

We’re excited if you...

• Are a “show, don’t tell” kind of person and are able to continuously improve your craft via measurable analytical feedback.
• Prefer saying “let’s try it out!” instead of “it’s been done, and it doesn’t work”.
• Plan ahead and stay on top of things, but don’t get flustered if it doesn’t go as planned (predicting the future is hard, we tried it).
• Are curious, love to learn, and love to share your knowledge.
• Must have demonstrated interest in crypto although no professional experience in the area is required.
• Must be able to, and enjoy, working in a fast-paced environment with frequent interruptions, changing priorities, and context-switching