Senior Software Engineer, Python

About you

We are looking for someone who will is a whizz with Python, has experience with microservices and is happy to get stuck into a gritty and fast paced environment to work within our awesome Python team, championing and leading the build of secure, robust and high-performance systems. 

The Opportunity

Our Python team works on building highly available low latency microservices from scratch using the newest bleeding-edge technologies. You will work on creating internal tools to be used across the company, have the opportunity to make a huge impact on our growing company, solving complex problems as we scale. You’ll be part of a group of people working together to build solutions to mission-critical problems and a company that values the very best ideas. People rely on our products to communicate daily, which means they rely on us to build things with a high degree of resiliency and reliability.

• Design developer-friendly APIs.

• Build, test, and deploy applications to deliver critical global communications services.

• Identify and resolve issues related to latency, scalability, and performance.

• Create tools to automate aspects of production systems.
  
  

Who we're looking for

• 6+ years of professional software development experience with an object-oriented programming language

• Experience with web application development using Python

• Comfort working with relational databases at scale.

• Experience in a highly-available, uptime-critical production environment.

• Deep knowledge of microservice architecture patterns and anti-patterns.

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Jenkins, Prometheus, or RabbitMQ. 

Bonus Points For

• You take a thoughtful approach to decision making, knowing when to move fast and when to long-term optimize.

• You want to work in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.

• You keep up to date with the latest technologies and patterns, and enjoy sharing what you’ve learned.

 

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