Software Engineer IV (Python/React)

• Build subject matter expertise on your team s code base and platform.
• Write clean, production-ready code that is easily understood and well tested.
• Do no harm and leave it better than you found it when refactoring components.
• Serve in an on-call rotation (DevOps philosophy where you will participate in ops) and respond promptly to any production issues to remediate rapidly.
• Be a teammate, communicate well, show up when expected, and be available.
• Write secure code. Avoid introducing an OWASP vulnerability. Know how APIs are secured, sessions are handled, and data is validated properly.
• Work in an agile development model and participate, or even lead, sprint planning activities to break down epics, estimate accurately and consistently.
• Participate in team meetings in the evening time to coordinate with team members in India.
• Look for and surface dependencies that can create technical challenges, bottlenecks, or otherwise inhibit deliveries.
• Build reliable observability; monitor and log alerts to ensure the team is aware of, and can respond to, quality issues or outages.
• Help other teammates resolve complex problems or think through design/architecture challenges. Be available and responsive.
• Foster an excellent engineering culture based in trust, accountability, character, and honesty.
• Seek feedback and deliver constructive criticism (e.g., code reviews) in a tactful and empathetic manner; build others up and mentor without ego.
• Be proactive in moving to new cards/stories and contributing to the team s forward momentum.
• Participate and hold code reviews to ensure high quality deliveries.
• Remediate security risks found via penetration tests and scans.

Your Qualifications:

• Possess a bachelor s degree, or equivalent experience. Emphasis in engineering, data science, computer science or information systems is preferred.
• Have a minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience developing SaaS applications.
• Relevant experience of developing web applications using either - Python, Ruby, Java, Nodejs, etc.
• Familiarity with common frameworks and stacks - Django, Rails, React, Nextjs, etc.
• Knowledge of deploying web applications in production environment
• Basic knowledge of containerization of web applications, eg: using Docker
• Familiarity with relational databases - PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Proficiency with Django and Python a must. Experience with React.js, Redux, webpack is a plus.
• Must have proficiency with AWS systems (RDS, EC2, S3, Security Groups, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of Git source control, versioning/branching, rebasing, etc.
• Proficiency with code coverage and unit testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, secure sessions, identity and access management providers (OAuth, SAML, etc.)
• Advanced experience with database queries, SQL, optimization and tuning (MySQL, Postgres etc.)
• Knowledge of caching systems (Redis, Memcache, Elasticache).
• Familiar with queueing systems (SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, etc.)

Our Technology Stack:

• Python: Django, uWSGI, Celery
• Javascript: React
• MySQL
• Puppet
• AWS
• Cypress