Python Backend Developer

Location: Latin America/Europe - Permanent Remote

Experience: 6 - 15 Years

Role Type: Contracting Full Time (40 Hrs/week)

Overlap Hours: 8 Hours PST time

Contract Duration: 3-6 Months

Mandatory Skills

Python- 5 years,

Django- 5 years,

SQL-5 years.

Hands-on experience with the AWS cloud is mandatory

Total years of exp- 6+ years experience mandatory

Required Skills

• 7+ years of experience in software development - ( Purely backend )
• Coding experience in server-side programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, Ruby) as well as database languages (SQL)
• Experience working with server-side MVC frameworks (e.g. Django, .NET, Spring, Rails, Phoenix)
• Past experience and success in building and supporting scalable APIs, services, or applications
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. You are adept at communicating relevant information clearly and concisely.
• Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success.
• Exhibit core behaviors focused on craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and team success
• Ability to look ahead to identify opportunities, foster a culture of innovation, and build for scale.
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills
  
  

About The Role

A globally recognised firm is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join their Carriers team! The Carriers team is responsible for developing new features, building infrastructure and maintaining current services. As a Senior Engineer, he/she will provide leadership and oversight in technical design, systems architecture, and coding for their team and the Engineering team.

Responsibility

Design, implement, test, and deploy software services with high SLAs that can handle millions of requests a day.

• Ensure scalability and maintainability through microservices adoption, decoupling of concerns from the data model, queuing of jobs, application layering and container-based software distribution.
• Continue to build out and enhance our CI/CD pipeline for smooth and safe production releases via automated testing and verification.
• Verify and ensure performance and correctness of systems in response time and throughput.
• Architect systems and refactor existing systems for optimal performance and reuse
• Participate in peer reviews, testing and in design reviews for new features, products, and systems
• Collaborate with business teams and provide early input to new product ideas and functionality
• Define, implement, and monitor operational metrics to ensure performance and quality.
• Work with a sense of urgency and iterate quickly in an agile process.
• Mentor more junior engineers on engineering best practices.
• Exceptional problem solving skills: demonstrated ability to understand business challenges and translate those into technical solutions.
  
  

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