Senior Python Backend Engineer (remote; Europe timezones)
Collectly
Software Engineering
Yerevan, Armenia
Posted on Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Job description
Develop features and improvements to the Collectly product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
Collaborate with Founders and Core Team (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
Represent Collectly and its values in public communication around specific projects.
Ship small and midsized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.
Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
Job requirements
Significant professional experience with Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery.
At least basic algorithms and data structure knowledge.
Understanding of race conditions and how to mitigate them by crafting concurrent code.
Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems, including SQL.
Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.
Ability to use GitLab.
Necessity to come to Yerevan for 2 weeks for onboarding (relocation is not required).
Permanent location - GMT 0 to GMT+4 timezones.
1) You can work remotely from where you live (except the countries under sanctions)
2) After 1 year in our Yerevan office, we can submit your documents for U.S. L1B work visa
3) Or we can sponsor your relocation to another country, chosen by you