Senior Python Back End Engineer (Remote-LATAM)

Posted 3 years ago
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ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING A HYPER-GROWTH LOGISTICS TECH COMPANY?

→Do you believe that there’s always a better way to solve a problem?

→Do you have experience building dynamic and scalable applications at hyper-growth companies?

→Do you have experience in building dynamic and scalable applications in Python?

If so, nice to meet you! We are Loadsmart and we have recently created a new Senior Back End Engineer to help us optimize top talent at our growing company (we grew from 150 to 450 in the last 18 months) with a recent Series C of $90M. We are seeking an innovative, agile, data-oriented Senior Back End Engineer who thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced global company.

LOCATION: Anywhere in Latin America

WHAT YOU GET TO DO...

  • Lead projects and initiatives for your team, always looking to raise their technical bar
  • Connect with other leaders and peers to discuss impacts on systems, products, and anything else that is done across multiple teams
  • Discuss good practices for software modularization and feel comfortable suggesting contributions to build our set of internal guidelines and shared code
  • Together with other team members, be responsible for the whole lifecycle of an application or service, from conception, specification, development, testing, support, bug fixing and decommission
  • Build and maintain services written in Python, using Terraform to manage our infrastructure, Kinesis for event streaming, and several other technologies
  • Propose, document and deliver API solutions for internal and external customers, as well as maintain projects inside the team’s scope
  • Review Pull Requests from the other members of the team
  • Create tests, automation scripts, and configure Continuous Integration tools
  • Take part in the decision making of writing clean and simple architecture design systems and tools

YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE…

  • Leading successful projects, working from their initial conception to its deployment to production
  • Experience with leading and mentoring engineers and working on their career growth is a plus
  • 5+ years of programming experience building and maintaining services, most of them in Python
  • Be passionate about creating clean, highly maintainable, and structured code, supported by unit and integration tests
  • Building blocks. Experience with architectural design patterns for services (client-server, event sourcing, MVC, etc)
  • Collaboration with Front End. Experience developing REST APIs as so you can also collaborate on its definition together with frontend developers
  • You’re very comfortable communicating in English (both written and spoken)
  • Troubleshooting. You're good at identifying the source of bugs, know how to dig into the code that may be causing the outstanding issue, and work to resolve any issues that come up
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform are a plus

YOUR COLLEAGUES WOULD DESCRIBE YOU AS:

  • Someone that is always trying to find better ways to solve problems and thinks outside of the box
  • Passionate about building solutions that create sustainable, resilient, and long-lasting value
  • Curious about learning new technologies and tools as well as evaluating their pros and cons. You ask questions and are hungry to learn more
  • Someone that takes ownership of complex problems
  • Passionate about developing and you value quality and code maintainability
  • Flexible person and open to others ideas
  • Someone that likes to solve problems in the most simple way as possible


WORKING AT LOADSMART

Prosperity
•Competitive base salaries - we believe in rewarding top talent
•Extremely competitive Equity package - our Series C valuation didn’t account for us almost tripling revenue this year so now is the time to get in!
•Signing bonus - because you will work remotely, you will use it as you like: to setup your home office, get a new laptop or buy that amazing coffee machine to make your days happier :)
•Training budget - we will support you on developing your skills.

...And Happiness!
•Unlimited time off
•Wellbeing initiatives
•Lots of engagement activities;
•An opportunity to work with a diverse, global community of 450+ Loadies united by our core value of Teamwork
•Regular recognition, feedback, and transparency across all levels.
•Opportunities for you to join our community service initiatives.