Build delightful software for podcasts and spoken word audio. Backtracks is seeking a qualified Senior Python Developer with some PEP to join our Product & Engineering Team.

Opportunity

Backtracks helps audio content creators and brands know and grow their audience and revenue. You will be responsible for building the Python-side of our web applications, platform, and APIs to deliver delightful experiences to our users and fellow developers.

Your day-to-day

• Design an implement services and solutions in Python
• Code and deploy new features in collaboration with our product and engineering teams
• Be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly
• Ship high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency and speed
• Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
• Have the freedom to suggest and drive initiatives
• We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to simple and elegantly Pythonic code.

You have

Experience working on design and development in any of the following roles:

• Python Developer
• Python Engineer
• Full Stack Developer
• Full Stack Engineer
• Product Developer
• Product Engineer
• Software Architect
• BDFL

A strong knowledge of:

• Python 3.6+
• HTML, CSS, JS, and Jinja2
• SQLAlchemy (interfacing with PostgreSQL)
• Distributed systems design and implementation
• Messaging systems and technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.)
• Search (e.g. Elasticsearch)
• Docker

Confidence or experience working with some or all of the following:

• Sanic, FastAPI, Apache Mod WSGI
• Spark, Flink – Celery
• VueJS
• AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
• CI/CD deployment processes

These qualities and traits:

• History of autonomous design decision making at technically focused companies
• History of designing and building web components, products, and technology
• Motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment
• Systems thinker (consider how components can scale across our platform and product offerings)
• The ability to code and build out designs independently
• A blend of product, system, and people knowledge that lets you jump into a fast paced environment and contribute from day one
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
• Strong work sense of ownership
• Strong collaboration and communication skills (fluency in English)
• PMA (Positive Mental Attitude)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant field and/or relevant work experience
• 5+ years professional experience

Perhaps even have these additional qualities and traits:

• Passion for podcasts, radio, and spoken word audio
• Passion for delivering high-quality software with quick turnaround times (e.g. you ship)
• A product-first approach to building software
• An enthusiasm for hard problems
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment

Bonus points if you have experience with:

• Analytics and/or advertising technology experience
• TimescaleDB
• AWS Batch
• Druid
• Drone, Jenkin, Github Actions, or CircleCI for CI/CD
• Audio analysis and processing