Part time- Senior Software Engineer - Backend Python

About the Job

• Develop new features, APIs and epics.
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Maintain current backend code.
• Work directly with QA and Product team to achieve high-quality output.
• Be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly.
• Ship high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency and speed.
• Work closely with product managers, other teams, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
• Have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives.
• Provide mentorship to junior developers on the team.
• Participate in weekly scrum meetings and daily stand-ups.
• Plan, develop, test, and deploy new applications and features (front end, middleware, and back-end) .
• Support and maintain the existing code/applications/libraries.
• Collaborate on technical solutions with an internal multi-functional team as well as external clients.
• Document and share knowledge with other team members.

Job Requirements

• 3+ years of programming experience building and maintaining services, most of them in Python.
• Passion. Be passionate about creating clean, highly maintainable, and structured code, supported by unit and integration tests.
• System Design, Design patterns & Software Architecture.
• SQL / NoSQL databases and Database architecture skills.
• Working with and building REST-full API's.
• Knowledge of Git.
• Troubleshooting. You're good at identifying the source of bugs, know how to dig into the code that may be causing the outstanding issue, and work to resolve any issues that come up.
• Curiosity. You're keen on learning new technologies and tools as well as evaluating their pros and cons. You're a pragmatic programmer. You ask questions and are hungry to learn more.