Staff Python Engineer (Django)

10+ years of hands-on SaaS software development experience At least 3+ years developing in Python/Django Deep experience with message queuing systems (Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS, etc.) Deep experience with distributed systems Experience with both monolithic and service oriented architectures Proven track record of improving legacy codebases Experience working with legacy Django systems Strong systems design skills Experience building horizontally scalable architectures Experience with SMS/telephony or email delivery systems (Twilio is a plus) Strong written communication skills Established habits communicating asynchronously and teaching through technical documentation Have been in a Senior+ hands-on coding role in the last 2 years

Lead technical initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability Maintain and simplify distributed system for segmenting and delivering SMS messages at high volume Create technical documentation, runbooks, and development tooling Provide architectural and system design direction for new capabilities and scaling existing capabilities Support engineers through hands-on technical mentorship and code development Participate in on-call rotation and incident response Collaborate with Ruby/Rails engineering team leaders to establish engineering strategy