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uplight.com
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Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack - Python, React)

Description

The Position

We are seeking a seasoned engineer with a passion for changing the way millions of people save energy. You’ll work within the Engineering team to build and improve our platforms to deliver flexible and creative solutions to our utility partners and end users and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Python and React to join our development team. As a Senior Fullstack Developer, you will be a crucial member of our development team, responsible for leading and driving the development of complex, scalable, and high-performance Python-based applications. One of your main focus will be on developing and supporting efficient, reusable and highly scalable APIs & components to deliver a compelling experience to users across platforms. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior developers, and coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important. You will take part in the planning and strategy to come up with the solutions with full ownership.

You will own the development and its quality independently and be responsible for high quality deliverables. And you will work with a great team with excellent benefits.

Responsibilities & Skills ****

You should: ****

  • Be excited to work with talented, committed people in a fast-paced environment.

  • Use a data-driven approach and actively work on product & technology roadmap at strategy level and day-to-day tactical level.

  • Be designing, building, and maintaining high performance responsive Web Applications and dashboards with reusable, and reliable code.

  • Use a rigorous approach for product improvement and customer satisfaction.

  • Love developing great software as a seasoned product engineer.

  • Be ready, able, and willing to jump onto a call with a partner or customer to help solve problems.

  • Be able to deliver against several initiatives simultaneously.

  • Have a strong eye for detail and quality of code.

  • Have an agile mindset.

  • Have strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

  • Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

  • Ability to deliver against several initiatives simultaneously as a multiplier.

Required Skills (Python): ****

  • You are an experienced developer – a minimum of 7+ years of professional experience.

  • Python experience, preferably both 2.7 and 3.x

  • Strong Python knowledge - familiar with OOPs, data structures and algorithms

  • Work experience & strong proficiency in Python and its associated frameworks (like Flask, FastAPI etc.).

  • Experience in designing and implementing scalable microservice architecture

  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration of third-party APIs.

  • 3+ years building and managing APIs to industry-accepted RESTful standards

  • Demonstrable experience with writing unit and functional tests

  • Application of industry security best practices to application and system development

  • Experience with database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.

Required Skills (React): ****

  • React experience, preferably React 15 or higher, 2+ years.

  • Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

  • Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript

  • Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

  • Experience with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

  • A knack for benchmarking and optimization

  • Demonstrable experience with writing unit and functional tests

The following experiences are not required, but you'll stand out from other applicants if you have any of the following, in our order of importance:

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP or other cloud service provider experience

  • Serverless architecture, preferably AWS Lambda

  • Experience with PySpark, Pandas, Scipy, Numpy libraries is a plus Experience in microservices architecture

  • Solid CI/CD experience

  • You are a Git guru and revel in collaborative workflows

  • You work on the command line confidently and are familiar with all the goodies that the linux toolkit can provide

  • Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

Qualifications ****

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.