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  • Posted: Nov 25, 2020
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Cowrywise is a fintech company democratizing access to premium financial services by making these services available to the mass market cheaply.
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    Software Engineer (Backend)

    About this Position

    • We are looking for a Software Engineer (Backend) to help us as we scale out our engineering infrastructure, software, and services
    • Talk to us if you are interested in a fast-paced environment and if you are passionate about using technology to solve exciting problems.

    Your Role Will Involve

    • Working within the engineering team to build new product features and enhancements, while solving some of the most interesting problems in financial analysis, machine learning, payments systems, and infrastructure scaling.
    • Building internal and external interfaces (API) for a diverse set of touchpoints, while also consuming other 3rd party interfaces.
    • Collaborating with product designers, product managers, and the rest of the team to bring to life new experiences for our customers.
    • Working on scaling our backend infrastructure on AWS, including writing automation scripts and technical documentation.
    • Contribute to raising our engineering standards, tooling, and processes

    What We Look For

    • 3+ years of experience developing backend software applications, web or mobile applications, and public-facing APIs.
    • Solid knowledge of writing software in Python. Good knowledge of Django and other Python frameworks will be an added advantage, including experience with caching, queuing, and asynchronous tasks and frameworks.
    • Our infrastructure is purely nix-based, so we'd love to see you have a good experience working with production apps on Linux environments and you're not afraid of being dropped in front of a shell prompt.
    • Strong computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures background.
    • Experience with containers, and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
    • Close familiarity with software engineering tools, software development methodology, TDD, and release processes is a big advantage.

    TLDR Requirements

    • Sound Knowledge of Python web frameworks (Django, Flask, Falcon)
    • Working knowledge of Database Systems (Mysql, Postgres)
    • Familiarity with using Linux commands (centos or ubuntu)
    • Familiarity with uwsgi, gunicorn, nginx and apache
    • Ability to use git
    • Good understanding of REST principles and a fair understanding of building RESTful APIs with Django rest framework
    • Familiarity with Oauth2 and JWT Authentication
    • Bonus points for Celery, Redis, Memcache, Docker, RabbitMQ.

    Method of Application

    Note: We do not expect that all applicants would have all the desired skillsets. You will be given strong consideration if you are particularly exceptional in few and have some interest and capabilities in others.

    Interested and qualified? Go to Cowrywise on cowrywise.breezy.hr to apply

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