Remote Senior Software Engineer, Python

Summary

Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities. Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of modern testing principles
• Proven experience working with the majority of our tech-stack
• High focus on quality, operational excellence and customer experience
• Extensive experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with a highly distributed microservices architecture
• Expert knowledge of Python and some of the main web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Django, CherryPy)
• Experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL
• Profound knowledge of Docker

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and design teams to build high-value features
• Drive the evolution of our architecture and system, and ensure the availability, scalability, and efficiency of our services
• Mentor team members, foster technical excellence, and lead cross-functional initiatives
• Work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic
• Produce simple, maintainable code while always looking to improve it
• Define testing strategies and write automated tests
• Own your code all the way to production with a self-service continuous delivery pipeline and production infrastructure
• Run what you build using containers orchestration and monitoring technologies
• Perform code-reviews promptly, regularly and constructively
• Lead system design and code architecture discussions
• Foresee the impact of business and technical decisions on performance, reliability and scalability
• Own the entire software lifecycle
• Propose and participate in team processes improvements
• Lead the technical excellence of the system and create plans to mitigate outages
• Pro-actively mentor other engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to end user
• Experience participating in mitigating technical debt
• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS technologies
• Ability to think abstractly and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems
• Experience working remotely in a global environment
• Proactive in identifying risks and taking an impact-centric approach to problem-solving
• Significant evidence of having maintained and owned monolithic services
• Visible contribution to open-source projects

Benefits

• 30 days of annual leave plus 1 extra day off called 'YouTime' to focus on your wellbeing
• Vacation bonus equal to one-third of your monthly salary
• Work abroad for up to 30 days in a calendar year
• Medical and Dental plan
• 13th month salary
• Growth and learning opportunities