Senior Backend Engineer at Amitruck

Job Purpose

The Senior Python Engineer - Backend, manages the python engineering team to build the best-in-class logistics tech services and products for Amitruck. The role holder will manage individual software developers and build APIs, large-scale systems backend, and message queues.

This role is for a senior software engineer who will grow into a technical lead role over time.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage individual software engineers to maximize throughput without compromising on quality.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle.
• Architecture, building, maintaining APIs, and distributed service-oriented systems.
• Implement backend services using Django and Django Rest Framework.
• Collaborating with product managers and other business-side stakeholders to brainstorm, design, and implement features and applications.
• Writing clear, efficient, scalable, modular, unit-tested, and maintainable code.
• Engender software engineering best practices including documentation in the engineering team.
• Translating business requirements into achievable milestones and code.

Skills and Experience Required

• Software developer management experience.
• Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude.
• Ability to work independently and manage up.
• Ability to make technical decisions and document them.
• Experience in building fully unit-tested backend services and APIs using Django and Django Rest framework.
• Experience with Agile software development principles.
• At least 3 years of experience in managing individual contributors in software development.

Competencies

• Set and maintain high-performance standards.
• Writing clear, efficient, scalable, modular, unit-tested, and maintainable code
• Paying close attention to detail, accuracy, and completeness.
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills on a daily basis.
• Plan and organizes tasks and work responsibilities to achieve objectives.