Backend Developer Team Lead - Remote

April 27

Zyte

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The leader in reliable web data extraction technology & services.

Web crawling • Web scraping • Scraping • Scrapy • Data Science

201 - 500

💰 $3M Debt Financing on 2021-12

Description

• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues affecting the customer experience • Comfortable taking ownership in business-critical situations; you enjoy being the “go-to” person, and you’re ready to act as Incident Commander to guide your team to resolve a critical incident • Team Management. You’ll have a fair amount of autonomy over this, but it will likely include: • Developing talent and maintaining a strong team culture • Nurture your team's career development plans • Create an open work environment where trust and open communications and feedback loops are the norm • Aggressively tracking down and removing bottlenecks in team productivity • Gain expert domain knowledge of products and platform • Review existing architecture and drive technical designs • Maintain a productive codebase for team productivity • Lead complex development efforts and provide insightful feedback during code reviews • Implement state-of-the-art testing techniques for high-quality • Collaborate with the Product QA team for quality user experiences • Translate business requirements into architectural decisions • Collaborate with other teams to enhance customer experience across product portfolio • Show strong accountability • Help with planning sessions, assess requirements from various stakeholders, provide fast feedback loops, and take ownership of quarterly deadlines • Manage effectively team capacity, create contingency plans, and adjust deliveries when the team is understaffed • Identify and collect key metrics, to help the team and the organization track key performance indicators that could signal areas of risk • Manage communications effectively and deliver key updates in a timely manner

Requirements

• Strong track record in Python, and experience with web application technologies such as Django, FastAPI, or similar frameworks • Strong experience working on designing, and optimizing RESTful APIs for high performance • Working experience with cloud technologies such as AWS or GCP and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes • Working experience with designing and developing server-side web applications in multiple platforms and architectures • Strong experience with data pipelines and distributed message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ • You are an observable ninja, bringing a monitoring and data-driven mindset • You have a passion for software quality and security. Commitment to quality and a fine eye for detail • Experience with software community standard tools such as git and docker and SaaS collaboration tools such as JIRA • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills • You love continuous learning • Proven track record of successfully leading teams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, and strong organizational skills • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, in English • Ideally demonstrating experience having worked in a remote environment

Benefits

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team • Have the freedom & flexibility to work remotely • Get the chance to work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools