Backend Engineer

Codility is on a mission to unlock the world’s engineering potential. We are a product-led company with a very experienced and talented engineering team that you can exchange with and learn from.

As a Backend Engineer, you will take an active role in shaping a product made for engineers by engineers to evaluate engineers.
The team that is currently hiring is called Assess and is working on Codility's core product: CodeCheck

If you are driven by business impact and you love working on complex problems in a product that millions of software engineers use, this is for you !

Location: Poland or Eastern Europe (100% remote)
We offer both B2B and employment contract options.

What you will do.

• Writing reusable, testable, production ready, observable and efficient code using Python
• Designing and implementing low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Testing what you code and contributing to how it runs, is deployed, and scaled
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Implementing security and data protection by design
• Integrating of data storage solutions
• Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation
• Collaborating with the Product, Research and Design Teams in order to understand end user requirements for the implementation of new software features

Who you are. 

• You have demonstrable experience as a Python Developer working for a Product-led/SaaS organization with good knowledge of Docker, Identity and Access Management, REST web services etc.
• You have experience making changes to a large code base and understand the challenges of technical debt. 
• You are proficient in designing & developing Web Services (REST)
• You enjoy getting involved in the product development cycle and making suggestions to improve the product and/or the development process
• Good understanding of public cloud services and modes of operation (Preferably AWS), Django, Application Development and pushing products to the cloud
• Strong understanding of modern software development best practices like Trunk Based Development, Continuous Delivery, TDD, etc.

Our culture

Our engineers enjoy a lot of autonomy and flexibility to do what they do best: solve problems. 

Concretely, this means that each of us takes ownership of their tasks and projects and are free to organise their time as they see fit. This also means that there is no micromanagement and that we keep meetings to a minimum to allow for focus time to code. 

We are 100% remote and have an international team, but we strive to meet regularly in offsites. The last one was in Portugal in the beginning of the month where the team got to know each other better and worked on an exciting new project that they delivered after that week. 

We love code reviews, debates and knowledge sharing. These happen freely within teams as well as cross-department through guilds and other initiatives.  

Here is our tech stack.

• Backend: Python 3.8, Django
• Frontend: ES2018, React, Redux, styled-components, Jest
• Database: PostgreSQL, Redshift, DynamoDB
• Continuous Deployment/Tools: Gitlab/GitlabCI, PyCharm, Goland
• Infrastructure: ECS, Kubernetes (EKS), Istio, Prometheus stack, AWS, Chef

How we behave.

We're human. Our diversity and unique experience make us strong. We allow ourselves to be vulnerable and treat one another with grace. We take ownership. We expect one another to take initiative and trust each person to make decisions based on the best available data. We have passion, perseverance and urgency to hit our goals and work together to create the best outcomes. We think big. We innovate and challenge the status quo to maximize the value we deliver to our users. We constantly experiment with new ways to drive excellence. We're real. We are honest with ourselves and one another. We listen, speak up, and are ready to change our minds.