Software Development Engineer

What you'll do:

• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance.
• Enhance existing services and applications to increase availability, reliability, and scalability in a microservices environment.
• Manage testing and bug fixes and work across the engineering team to build new features and services at scale.
• Prepare technical documentation & Improve engineering tooling, process, and standards to enable faster, more consistent, more reliable, and highly repeatable application delivery.
• Remain engaged with the latest technology trends and understand operational challenges to continually evolve application delivery processes and platform components.
• Support platform technology decisions based on performance metrics and operational SLAs.
• Provide guidance and best practices around security for applications and platform infrastructure.

What makes you a great fit:

• 3+ years of experience in Python and familiarity with JavaScript development.
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework. (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)
• 1+ years of experience developing service-based applications using Node.JS.
• Understanding of micro-service architecture and RESTful API integration patterns.
• Experience with implementing test frameworks for unit testing and build acceptance testing
• Desire to work in a collaborative, fast-paced, start-up like environment.
• Experience with distributed source control management is preferable (Github).