Senior Software Engineer – Backend

🕒 April 2

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📋 Description

• Write and ship code utilizing Python and frameworks such as Django to deliver platform features and improve platform performance in a microservice environment. • Take ownership of the full lifecycle of services, including deployment, monitoring, alerting, and triage to quickly diagnose and resolve production issues. • Work in an agile environment participating in agile ceremonies and shipping code regularly. • Participate in code reviews offering constructive feedback ensuring the team adheres to the highest standards of performance, security, and Python/Django best practices. • Partner closely with product management, UX, QA and engineering colleagues to break down complex requirements, define technical scope, and map out architectural solutions for a microservices environment. • Act as a mentor to engineering colleagues by sharing your backend expertise and fostering a culture of continuous learning. • Being comfortable with AI tooling. Leverage AI tooling to enhance development workflows, improve code quality and assist in tasks like code generation, debugging, testing, and reviewing.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of being a Senior Engineer • 5+ years experience as an engineer with relevant experience • Proficiency in Python • Proficiency in Django or equivalent web frameworks (i.e. Flask) • Experience with building, monitoring and debugging microservices. • Experience writing automated tests using tools like Django's TestCase or PyTest, or similar • Familiarity with the following technologies and tools or their cognates: • Redis • Celery • Relational databases, such as Postgres • Docker • Kubernetes • Jenkins • GCP • AI-Augmented Development: Has the ability to demonstrate using AI-enabled development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) to streamline coding, debugging, and infrastructure-as-code authoring. • Preferred: • Experience with: • Node.js • React • OAuth, OIDC, and/or SAML • Zuora or Braintree APIs • Salesforce APIs • JavaScript