Senior Backend Engineer - Python/AWS

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience; Master's preferred.
• 10+ years of professional experience.
• 5+ years of full-time SaaS application development with AWS, preferably Python.
• 5+ years hands-on with AWS application development.
• 5+ years of API development, microservices, and 3rd party integrations.
• 2+ years using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway for serverless architecture.
• 5+ years using agile scrum development processes.
• Experience building event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with OO practices, TDD/BDD, SOLID, YAGNI, DDD.
• Experience in supporting production-grade systems with SLAs.
• Experience working with sensitive data and establishing secure development processes.

Responsibilities:

• Keep up to date with latest tools and strategies, introducing new ideas to the team.
• Design and implement new AWS serverless cloud applications.
• Mentor software engineers, aiding skill improvement and achieving sprint commitments.
• Collaborate with product management on architecture alignment with product and data roadmaps.
• Show expertise in cloud-first application development and big data systems.
• Maintain an agile/lean environment focusing on automation and testing.
• Design and develop software using TDD/BDD, including writing automated tests.
• Create infrastructure for monitoring, scaling, and alerting applications.
• Ensure secure architecture and coding practices.
• Conduct code reviews and engage in pair programming.
• Integrate with 3rd party platforms.
• Manage special projects and additional duties as assigned.