Senior Backend Engineer at mPharma

Overview

mPharma is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our tech team. As a senior backend engineer at mPharma, you will work on an autonomous squad of engineers, product managers, and designers that decide what needs to be built and how to build it. Each day senior backend engineers at mPharma are working on problems like how to create complex data enrichment pipelines, how to use computer vision to enhance the onboarding experience, or how to present to the team that contract testing is awesome. Furthermore, we believe that engineers play a critical role in product definition, so you will work with product managers and designers to determine how to solve real problems that real people have.

At the end of the day, mPharma believes in people, and in addition to being highly skilled, our team is collaborative and welcoming. We are looking for engineers who want to grow the company, themselves, and their colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve the software.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Focus on overall product quality and user experience.
• Take initiative and be responsible for technical solutions to data quality and workflow issues.

Our Ideal Candidate

• You are a smart, kind, team player that wants to innovate while building value
• You are comfortable writing Python
• You are experienced with modern infrastructure and tooling
• You love best practices in your area of expertise
• You believe in practices like automated testing and continuous delivery
• You are comfortable with designing and building scalable, distributed systems
• You know how to apply data structures and algorithms to real-world problems
• You are a critical thinker who always pays attention to detail.

Qualification

• Degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of relevant software development experience building backend applications
• Familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems (Knowledge of Event-Driven Design is a plus)
• Experience with writing APIs using Restful standards (Experience with Django Rest Framework is a plus)
• Knowledge of data concepts related to relational databases is a plus
• Ability to contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team.
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• Ability to write in English fluently and idiomatically.