Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

What you can expect to do be doing

• Writing fast, clean, robust code primarily in Python & Golang for implementing services that implement core product features that is delivered as an on-premises product
• Building tests at all levels
• Participating actively in code reviews, design discussions with the team and working with engineering leadership and product management to scope and implement new features
• Triaging, diagnosing, proactive code refactoring, and fixing bugs in collaboration with the customer success team and users directly
• Communicating clearly with the rest of the engineering team including UI engineers, integrations, support, and engineering management
• Writing clear documentation for your features and ensuring users can easily understand the features you’ve built

What you’ll need to bring

General software engineering skills:

• Good coding fundamentals, including knowledge of software design patterns, modularity principles, testing and automation development, and performance
• Demonstrated ability to understand new concepts and technologies quickly and be able to use them effectively
• Demonstrated ability of verbal and written technical communication skills in English
• Ability to work in a large distributed application code base - to analyze and debug complex code flows and make tradeoffs between fast delivery and code quality.
• A “can do” attitude - ability to jump in and work with technical leaders and peers to complete work.
• Ability to lead and mentor junior engineers in addition to completing individual development assignments.

Specific software engineering skills:

• Experience with multithreading and concurrency in Python (or other languages) as well as async processing patterns
• Solid understanding of Linux systems for development and deployment
• Proven working knowledge of Docker, containers, and delivering software in containers
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other SQL databases for persistence and ORM frameworks like SQLAlchemy
• 8+ years experience in a professional software development building API services implementing REST and/or GraphQL with Python, Golang, or a similar language
• A proven understanding of 12-factor applications

What we’d love to see

• Kubernetes experience and understand how to build applications that run well in kubernetes
• Working understanding of application profiling, performance measurement and optimization
• Proven working knowledge of WSGI applications like Flask as well as asynchronous systems like twisted and asyncio
• A solid understanding of authentication and authorization approaches and schemes like Auth2 and RBAC
• Working knowledge of data modeling in relational databases and making performant queries
• Possess some security experience or training in application security and best practices
• Experience in Golang and able to use both Python and Go