Backend Engineer at Prospa Inc

Job Description

• We’re looking for an enthusiastic backend software engineer to join our team. Your primary responsibilities include architecting, implementing, releasing and supporting features that enable our collaborative product model.
• A commitment to collaborative problem solving and creating high-quality products is essential.

You’ll be expected to:

• Explore, define and develop new technologies and architecture
• Re-evaluate existing technologies to constantly improve our platform
• Improve upon and build new business-critical features and infrastructure

What you’ll be doing:

• Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features
• Design and develop backend and data layers of the software that will run across web and mobile apps
• Work with smart algorithm processes to scale software from thousands to millions of transactions
• Set up staging and sandbox environments to test software functionality and efficiency
• Build smart data collection techniques to better understand user behaviors and experience
• Tackle software bugs and technical troubleshooting
• Support customer-witnessed testing
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Critically look at the user problems and design process flows and improve them
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand member pain points and come up with solutions
• Proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems
• Work across the engineering team to improve and uphold high technical standards

Requirements
You have:

• 4+ years developing software in a production environment at scale
• A deep understanding of Python
• Very good understanding of APIs and Django Rest framework
• Very good understanding of Celery, RabbitMQ
• Very good understanding of socket programming
• Ability to 'mould' efficient queries to perform tasks on time
• Must have built awesome software before that had live active users
• Knowledge of technological trends
• Working knowledge of Git
• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research
• Experience working with transactional databases (MySQL DB, PostgreSQL) and caching systems (Memcached, Redis)
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale mobile applications
• An appreciation for maintainable and well-tested code

Who are we looking for?

• Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
• Impact and mission driven
• Champion mentality; result and goal orientated
• Great team player with humility
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely
• A keen and strategic problem solver
• Enjoy learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work

You possibly have:

• Experience with Node.js
• Experience with AWS as the cloud provider. Accepted alternatives are GCP or Azure
• Experience with Flask or FastAPI is desired but not required
• Experience with Test-Driven Development