Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

• We are looking for a Sr Backend Engineer (Python) to join our team! The ideal candidate is a passionate and experienced professional with a strong track record of developing efficient, high-performance technologies
• You’ll bring your expertise in engineering principles, exceptional system design skills, and a product-focused mindset to enhance our data systems and applications, delivering even greater value to our enterprise users. If you’re excited about contributing to a cutting-edge private company search engine, we want to hear from you!
• Craft high-quality code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for scalable software systems. Uphold and advocate for these standards during code review
• You will work closely with a Full Stack team to deliver new user experiences
• Drive improvements to product quality, security, and performance that impact your team
• Optimize the runtime of our distributed system, including AWS services, databases, and our search engine. Your goal will be to achieve ambitious performance targets at all levels of our architecture, from the customer-facing API down to the lowest layer
• Collaborate with Machine Learning Engineers to develop new AI-powered features
• Design and deploy scalable data infrastructure within a distributed event-driven architecture
• Prototype and experiment with new technologies and tools as part of ongoing innovation efforts

Benefits

• Culture and benefits built around work-life balance
• Extensive resources to support physical and mental health
• Employee assistance program
• Generous retirement plans
• Incentives for referring new colleagues
• Learning, training and mentoring programs
• Cross-functional projects
• Stretch assignments to help you progress
• Receive feedback and earn bonuses from peers & managers
• Employee bonding activities
• ESG and charitable team initiatives

• Bonus points if you have experience with ElasticSearch or MongoDB
• Experience working with and building user facing features
• You have excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer
• Strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience
• Experience working with event-driven microservice architectures in production environments
• Solid experience with Python
• Familiarity with AWS and its suite of services
• Demonstrated experience in collaboration on features from the conceptual phase through to release