We're looking for a Python/Django developer to join our team and help build the back-end. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary and end-to-end ownership of modules, including designing, development, deployment and support.
Responsibilities
- Writing reusable, testable and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
- Developing new REST APIs and micro-services in Python.
- Maintaining and improving existing components of the Django app.
- Developing tools and automated tests for improving our tracking algorithms
- Profiling and improving REST API performance (latency, DB queries, etc)
Skills and Qualifications
- Experience with Python-Django is the must and object-oriented programming
- Expertise in algorithms and data structures
- Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL
- Fair understanding of building RESTful APIs
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Able to create database schema that represent and support business processes
- Excellent problem-solving skills