Backend Python Engineer - remote

PolicyFly
Posted 4 years ago
Do you love Django, RESTful APIs, Docker, Celery and Python? Do you want to work on a growing, ambitious and new product? Ok, sweet, keep reading…

PolicyFly is modernizing the ancient world of property/casualty insurance in both the US + London markets. We are a stable, growing company with a small, talented &ambitious team.

We run an VueJS SPA frontend with a Django REST API backend with a host of services (e.g. Celery, ElasticSearch, etc), all running on kubernetes in the Google Cloud.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with a proven track record in building modern and maintainable backends. To learn more, please visit: http://www.policyfly.com/.

Requirements

Must have 5+ years of professional engineering experience and have expertise in the following areas:
  • Django / Django Rest Framework
  • Docker (and ideally Kubernetes)
  • Celery
  • Postgres
  • ElasticSearch / Lucene
  • Nice to have:
    • VueJS
    • Google Cloud Platform
    Key Responsibilities:

    We’d envision that your focus would be split across the following 3 areas, roughly equally:
  • Product: Planning &Development of new features (e.g. Reporting &BI, Public API, Enhanced Configuration Layer, etc)
  • Improve + Maintain: Refactor and improve the current core platform
  • Customer Onboarding: Collaborate with the team to onboard new customers (and their configurations), collaborate and mentor towards reaching best practices
  • Benefits
    • 100% Remote Team
    • Competitive Salary
    • Equity
    • Unlimited PTO
    • Modern Tools &Product
    • Stable, growing company with a small, talented &ambitious team