What you will do:

• You will be one of the founding engineers of a new company product
• You will wear a product hat to ideate and iterate on features, design reliable and scalable RESTful web services, write clean code in Python, automate end-to-end test cases, and ensure that your services work well on our AWS infrastructure.
• You will follow development best practices including architecture review, (virtual) whiteboarding, code review, test coverage, etc.
• You will take initiatives to improve resilience and security of your components and drive projects end to end.

Who you are:

• You have experience building production grade systems in a team environment.
• You have a product mindset and you enjoy creating value and delighting your users.
• You obsess about simple architectures and designing reliable and scalable systems.
• You write clean, readable code in Python. If you also have Javascript / React experience, great! -- but this is not the expectation.
• You have a deep understanding of how the web works and love designing beautiful APIs that make life easy for your consumers.
• You have a command of SQL and love modeling data
• You know enough of / want to know about AWS infrastructure to be able to monitor and ensure your services are healthy and happy on production.
• Last but not least, you are self-driven, well organized, curious, tenacious, and communicate effectively. You ask a lot of questions, dig deep, and come up with creative reliable solutions and execute repeatably with a great sense of ownership and accountability.