Literati is looking for a Senior Back End Engineer to support their back end systems for the kids club and book fair products, as well as internal operations systems. The goal is to improve children's literacy across the United States by enhancing their existing infrastructure and developing new features.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience defining and leading web application server architecture initiatives
- 3+ years of experience building applications using Python
- 3+ years of experience supporting a cloud hosting environment (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Expertise in API and Data Model design
- Proficiency with with Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Bash, and related technologies
- Experience developing tests that ensure performance, quality, and scalability
- Proficiency with tools such as Git, Shortcut/Jira, etc.
Responsibilities
- Lead the full software development lifecycle from concept to deployment, collaborating with cross-functional teams to plan, design, and deliver robust and scalable solutions.
- Mentor and elevate the team's technical skills by conducting thorough and constructive code reviews, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and adherence to established best practices.
- Champion code quality and reliability by implementing comprehensive testing strategies, including automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, and ensuring proper QA coverage.
- Drive technical excellence by leading initiatives to enhance software development processes.
- Improving system monitoring, logging, and proactively managing technical debt to ensure long-term health and stability of our codebases.
- Support our back end systems for the kids club and book fair products, as well as internal operations systems.
- Support the team’s DevOps infrastructure.
Other
- Strong communication skills to convey architectural perspectives and monitor implementations
- Proven success delivering in an agile environment
- Demonstrated leadership in engineering environments through operational excellence, best practices, and mentoring junior developers
- Ability to work with the product team and customers to define requirements to build out new features.
- Experience implementing and documenting engineering processes and standards
