Backend Software Engineer at Prospa Inc

Job Description

• We’re looking for a 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.

Job Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing:

• Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features
• Design and develop 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 behaviours 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

Job Requirements
Who we’re 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
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
• A keen and strategic problem solver
• Enjoy learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work

Why you?
You have:

• 5+ 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, Memcached
• Very good understanding of Node.js, MySQL DB, PostgreSQL
• 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 and caching systems
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale mobile applications
• An appreciation for maintainable and well-tested code

Salary
Competitive Salary

Benefits
Why us?

• Medical cover
• Wellness perks
• Paid time off (leave days)
• We invest in our employees through career development & opportunities.
• You get to collaborate with and learn from smart and creative people.