closed vacancySenior Backend Engineer (Django) - remote

PolicyFly

Posted 4 years ago $125k - 160k (US Dollars)

Django Postgresql Celery Elasticsearch Kubernetes

Do you love Django, RESTful APIs, test driven development and kubernetes? 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 Senior Backend Engineer with a proven track record in building modern and maintainable backends. To learn more, please visit: http://www.policyfly.com/.

Key Requirements:

Must have 5+ years of professional engineering experience and be a proven expert 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

Mentor + Jump in: Lend a hand to the team to onboard new customers (and their configurations), mentor towards best practices