Software Engineer (Python)

As a Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for advancing our development stack and ensuring scale as we grow to millions of monthly active users across many countries.

In this role, you will:

• Responsible of building and maintaining robust APIs - from the service that powers them right down to the line of code that perfects them
• Ensuring all our services are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale
• You'll work closely with other teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues
• You will support a wide range of products focusing on automation, availability and performance, and above all reliability as well as supporting mobile engineers and business intelligence leading up to, during and after each sprint
• You will live true to our ambitions of building an industry leading platform which is relentlessly focussed on innovation

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering preferred

3+ years of experience in analysis, design, coding and implementation of next-generation web applications in Python and Django

1+ years of experience in API based architectures (eg SOA)

Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web products

Experience with web infrastructure, distributed systems, performance analysis, search infrastructure

Must have experienced the whole development cycle from start to finish

Inside-out knowledge of free and open-source web application frameworks, e.g. Django; In-depth understanding of Python; Meta-classes, decorators, descriptors, list comprehensions and multiple inheritance/mixins should be commonly used paradigms

In-depth knowledge of database management technologies, preferably MySQL, PostgreSQL and understanding of NoSQL databases

Understanding of Agile Methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum and XP

Ability to handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end

Excellent communication & interpersonal skills

Driven to gain insight into different new and old technologies

Detail oriented

Analytical thinking; Conceptual thinking; Detail-oriented; Ability to prioritize tasks and quickly adjust in a rapidly changing environment;