Senior Software Engineer, Python

About you
We are looking for someone who is a whizz with Python, has experience with microservices, and is happy to get stuck into a gritty and fast-paced environment to work within our awesome Python team, championing and leading the build of secure, robust, and high-performance systems.
The Opportunity
Our Python team works on building highly available low latency microservices from scratch using the newest bleeding-edge technologies. You will work on creating internal tools to be used across the company, have the opportunity to make a huge impact on our growing company, solving complex problems as we scale. You'll be part of a group of people working together to build solutions to mission-critical problems and a company that values the very best ideas. People rely on our products to communicate daily, which means they rely on us to build things with a high degree of resiliency and reliability.

Design developer-friendly APIs.
Build, test, and deploy applications to deliver critical global communications services.
Identify and resolve issues related to latency, scalability, and performance.
Create tools to automate aspects of production systems.

Who we're looking for

6+ years of professional software development experience with an object-oriented programming language.
Experience with web application development using Python.
Comfort working with relational databases at scale.
Experience in a highly-available, uptime-critical production environment.
Deep knowledge of microservice architecture patterns and anti-patterns.
Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Jenkins, Prometheus, or RabbitMQ.

Bonus Points For

You take a thoughtful approach to decision making, knowing when to move fast and when to long-term optimize.
You want to work in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
You keep up to date with the latest technologies and patterns, and enjoy sharing what you've learned.

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