We are a team of approximately 30 software developers grouped into several circles and sub-circles and located all around the world. Some of the technologies we are currently working on include, but are not limited to: Virtual Reality, building complex game/simulation editing tools and an advanced learning analytics dashboard, as well as scaling our DevOps server architecture to reach millions of students. To achieve our goals, our stack includes C#, Unity3D, JavaScript, Python, AWS, Azure, etc. As a Senior Python Software Engineer you will join our web team located in Kiev, Ukraine. You will be acting as an expert in microservices architecture, driving the architectural changes we are planning to implement in our monolithic system.
Your responsibilities
Design and build scalable, high-volume web applications focused on functionality, security and maintainability
Be the company’s engineering authority on micro-services, container architectures and related technologies
Educate and inspire engineering teams across the company in topics relating to micro-services
Take project ideas from design to implementation
Assume leadership and responsibility for the technical tasks and deliverables for a particular project
Optimize the performance of applications data ingestion and data processing pipelines
Build high-throughput and low latency micro-services
Develop systems that are highly scalable, but easy to maintain
Collaborate with colleagues on design and architecture decisions
Collaborate with colleagues on the creation of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines
Engineer, test, deploy, and maintain company multi tenant applications using web and cloud-based technology stack
Follows established coding standards and prescribed processes, both individually and at a team level
Ensure code reviews are held for the project and follow development processes and tool utilization (regular pull-requests, unit and integration test writing, etc.) are followed
Contributes to the engineering team’s culture of high code quality. You will be accountable for the quality of code that is delivered to QA and production and must ensure that appropriate code reviews and unit testing are adequately performed
Seeks ways to meet the underlying business requirements with cost effective, highly re-usable patterns and component
Assists Project Manager in project planning and estimating of project score items
Requirements
Hands-on experience and expert knowledge of full software development life cycle of microservices architectures; including tools, best practices, continuous deployment, dependency/complexity management, scale/performance tuning, monitoring, resiliency, etc.
Architect full stack life cycle of microservices, including back-end, front-end, devops
Expert-level understanding of the Python programming language, related optimization techniques, and design patterns
At least 4 years’ experience in Django development
Experience with Git version control tool
Effective communication skills (oral and written) are a must
Experience working in an Agile development environment
Able to work independently with minimum supervision
Experience and/or willingness to work in a remote/distributed team
What do we offer?
Friendly and productive work environment with fun, multinational, smart and open-minded people
Opportunity to work with the newest technologies in a product company
A lot of freedom within your scope of work
Opportunity to work from home
A fair salary based on your qualifications and experience
A fun and challenging opportunity to work in an exciting company
