Remote Python Developer, Senior

Summary

Join our team as a Python Engineer to rebuild the backend infrastructure using modern best practices. You will ship a quality product with features that customers love and improve the way we work.

Requirements

• Experience as a Python Engineer designing high-scale consumer-facing services
• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or other Python application frameworks such as Pylons
• Proficiency in database frameworks such as SQLAlchemy and working with both relational and NoSQL database systems
• Experience with Java backend development and Javascript frontend development is an advantage
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure is an advantage

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and support APIs, microservices, and backend services that power mobile apps used by millions of users and process hundreds of millions of events each day
• Continuously improve the Shopkick platform by devising new approaches to solve problems, refactoring, and optimizing services
• Handle merge requests and code reviews, enforcing standards and best practices
• Participate in Agile process (sprint planning, estimation, retrospectives, daily scrum)
• Improve our resilience, scalability, performance and quality