Senior Python Engineer

About Teramind

Teramind is the leading platform for user behavior analytics, serving multiple use cases from insider risk mitigation to business process optimization. With our comprehensive suite of solutions, organizations gain unprecedented visibility into user activities while enhancing security, optimizing productivity, and ensuring compliance. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and businesses of all sizes across industries, our innovative platform helps organizations protect sensitive data, maximize workforce performance, and create safer, more efficient digital workplaces. Through real-time monitoring and advanced analytics, we enable businesses to safeguard their most sensitive information while optimizing employee productivity in both in-office and remote work environments.

Our Core Values

At Teramind, our values drive everything we do. We embrace innovation as a fundamental principle, constantly pushing boundaries to improve our products, streamline processes, and enhance customer experiences. We foster resourcefulness by empowering our team members with the autonomy and confidence to solve problems independently while providing collaborative support when needed. As a globally inclusive organization, we celebrate diversity and create an adaptable work culture where respect and collaboration thrive across our international teams. Above all, we are committed to excellence, delivering the highest quality in every aspect of our work and consistently exceeding expectations in service to our clients and each other.

About the Role

We're looking for a proactive Senior Python Engineer who will be instrumental in optimizing large-scale integrations with third-party systems. Your responsibilities go beyond coding, with a focus on enhancing application efficiency, speed, scalability, and adaptability. Collaboration with our business teams is essential, as we expect you to not only have technical expertise but also the ability to align your ideas with our business goals, ensuring that all development efforts support our overall objectives.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems using Python and associated technologies

• Create and maintain databases using SQL database technologies

• Write unit tests and conduct system testing to ensure code quality and reliability

• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability

• Stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in software development, data processing, caching, cloud deployment, distributed computing, and API development

Requirements

• 7+ years of commercial experience as a Python Engineer, with a strong focus on utilising FastAPI for building microservices and web architectures.

• Extensive experience in building and interacting with APIs, including REST, webhooks, websockets, and other related technologies.

• Experience with Docker or similar container management tooling

• Experience with Object Oriented Programming / Object-Oriented Design Patterns

• Experience with open-source tooling and frameworks

Experience designing and building scalable solutions that leverage both relational and NoSQL databases

• An ability to maintain critical production software and build new production software from scratch

• Familiarity or willingness to learn concepts related to the deployment of ML models in a production environment

• Excellent written and oral communication skills and are comfortable working with a cross-functional, globally distributed team

Benefits

This is a remote job. Work from anywhere! We’ve been thriving as a fully-remote team since 2014. To us, remote work means flexibility and having truly diverse, global teams.

Additionally:

• Collaboration with a forward-thinking team where new ideas come to life, experience is valued, and talent is incubated.

• Competitive salary

• Career growth opportunities

• Flexible paid time off

• Laptop reimbursement

• Ongoing training and development opportunities

About our recruitment process

We don’t expect a perfect fit for every requirement we’ve outlined. If you can see yourself contributing to the team, we want to hear your story. You can expect up to 3 interviews. In some scenarios, we’re able to streamline the process to have minimal rounds. Director-level roles and above should expect a more thorough process, with multiple rounds of interviews.

All roles require reference and background checks

Teramind is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, religion, color, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.