JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive architecture and design decisions for various systems
• Take responsibility for all web-related backend technologies (Python, Django, Node.js)
• Produce solid, sustainable and standards driven code.
• Ensure high levels of performance, security and uptime.
• Collaborate with peers to write, review or provide feedback on technical design proposals.

• Full-stack engineering experience, with strong system fundamentals
• Experience with service-oriented architectures
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
• Strong industry experience in architecture and development of scalable production quality backend systems
• Good understanding of distributed systems, data stores, data modeling, indexing and associated trade-offs
• Understanding of how HTTPS works and what makes a good API
• Experience with TDD, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes
• Comfortable working in a *nix environment

• Experience developing and shipping APIs and SDKs
• Experience with WebSockets HTTP/2, or other long-lasting data channels
• Experience with ElasticSearch, NoSQL or REDIS
• Experience creating apps that are consumers of RESTful webservices
• Experience in a small startup environment