DevOps / Back-End Engineer at Lori Systems

The position:

Lori is seeking a hands-on Senior Python/Django Back-end Engineer to join our Product team. As a Back-End Engineer, you will be responsible for making engineering design decisions and developing features about the back-end. You will also be expected to be a role model for coding standards, tools, platforms and other best practices for the back-end team. **NOTE: this role is remote and can be based anywhere in a similar time zone to EAT/WAT.

What you'll work on:

• Leading the design and development of back-end features and components
• Collaborating with other engineers in API design and development
• Scaling the back-end architecture and codebase
• Reducing the level of technical debt of the back-end codebase
• Stewarding technical standards and quality
• Interface with product and other functional teams and their leadership
• Provide peer code review
• Analyze and assess code with an insistence on quality and reliability

Minimum qualifications: 

• BSc in Computer Science or related engineering degree
• 5+ years of software development work experience
• Experience building enterprise level SaaS platforms
• Experience with our stack: Python, Django, ElasticSearch, OAuth, Postgres, Redis, Redshift, AWS Cloud
• Experience working on backend systems at scale, using technologies like MySQL, Django, Redis, Python, RESTFul APIs, etc.
• Experience building and deploying complex but well architected, maintainable, and testable application backends
• Strong object-oriented programming and test driven development skills
• Great communication skills, interacting with development, testing and product team members
• Experience working as part of an agile team and knowledge of agile process

Preferred qualifications:

• DevOps Experience
• ReactJS, NodeJS
• MSc. in Computer Science or Mathematics
• Experience in a fast paced top tech startup environment