Remote Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Almabase, a rapidly growing company revolutionizing education affordability through alumni engagement software, as a Backend Engineer. You will be a key contributor to enhancing our product offerings as we expand into new markets. This role involves developing and maintaining features, ensuring data integration with third-party CRMs, improving event and fundraising management tools, and working on payment and communication systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and contribute to maintaining high system uptime. The ideal candidate possesses a minimum of one year of backend development experience with Python, Django, and RDBMS. Almabase offers a strong culture, competitive salary and equity, and numerous benefits.

Requirements

• Min 1 Year of Experience: Proven experience in software development, ideally with a focus on backend systems
• Python, Django and RDBMS Skills: Familiarity with Python, Django and relational database management systems (RDBMS) is essential
• Technical Proficiency: Understanding of software development principles, including object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms
• Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to troubleshoot and solve technical issues efficiently
• GitHub Link - The link to completely access your coding skills

Responsibilities

• Develop and Maintain Features: Collaborate with the engineering team to develop new features and maintain existing ones, ensuring high performance and responsiveness
• Code Review and Testing: Participate in code reviews, write unit tests, and conduct integration testing to ensure code quality and reliability
• Technical Problem Solving: Identify and resolve technical issues, leveraging your problem-solving skills to contribute to a seamless user experience
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software that meets user needs
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with emerging technologies and best practices, and apply this knowledge to your work
• Ensuring Data Integration with Third-Party CRMs: Develop solutions to integrate customer data seamlessly with various CRM systems
• Enhancing Event and Fundraising Management Tools: Contribute to improving our tools for event management and fundraising, making them more effective and user-friendly
• Working on Payment and Communication Systems: Develop and maintain systems that handle payments and facilitate communications between users
• Maintaining High System Uptime: Be part of a team that takes pride in maintaining high system availability and reliability

Benefits

• Strong Culture: We have a culture that we’re proud of. When you work at Almabase you get to work with amazing people that will help you grow to become the best version of yourself
• Transparency & Trust: An environment that trusts each individuals’ ability and creativity to achieve the best outcome for the team. High levels of transparency to help you get exposure to what’s happening across the business
• Great Salary & Equity: Along with competitive salaries, our top performers get stock options. As Almabase continues to grow, you’ll have a real opportunity to create wealth for yourself and your family
• More than just work: We have plenty of activities throughout the year that help build esprit de corps – whether they are intense cricket/football/basketball matches, or fun-filled music/dance/trivia/game nights
• Food & Snacks: You’ll never have to worry about your hunger pangs. We provide tasty home cooked food & snacks at all times of the day
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance for you and your dependents
• Unlimited leaves: There is no ceiling to the leaves. Our only policy is that you use your good judgment
• The comfort of home: On a tiring day, if you want to take a break on a bed or if you want to jog & take a shower at work or play your hearts our on PS5 , you can do it all at Almabase