Back-End Developer

A rapidly-growing company that is helping local food businesses expand beyond their neighborhood to serve their entire region, is looking for a Back-End Developer. The selected candidate will be building and scaling back-end services for the platform. The US-based company is determined to build a unique platform that promotes a sustainable, long-term growth channel for small businesses. This is a great opportunity for developers who enjoy working with a diverse team to build a merchant-friendly platform. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Build back-ends to replace Shopify and Airtable for everything related to order processing and inventory management
• Help to architect, generalize and scale the platform to support small businesses willing to create online stores and develop meaningful relationships with customers
• Help to integrate front-end elements with server-side logic and functionalities
• Work closely with product and engineering teams including especially Front-end engineers
• Optimize the platform to improve execution speed and resolve scalability issues
• Implement modern security and data protection practices
• Experiment, design and develop APIs, data storage solutions and other engineering projects

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 4+ years of experience working as a back-end developer
• Expertise in developing Python-based solutions
• Must be well versed with AWS development and related technologies (AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline, AWS Elastic Beanstalk)
• Experience in working with Django and PostgreSQL will be helpful
• Ability to work with languages like JavaScript or Typescript is preferred
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker is highly desirable
• Familiarity with technologies like Snowflake, Amplitude, BrowserStack, and Datadog is beneficial