Description
We are looking for an experienced Staff-level Backend Engineer with strong Python coding expertise to join our software engineering organization. You’ll be working as part of a skilled, collaborative team to evolve our instant-quote product and the technology platform behind it. You want to be part of a small, intensely skilled team, who feel total ownership of their work, and can’t imagine a day without learning & coding. You will play a crucial role in the Xometry platform and everything you do will matter. This is a 1-year contract.
Responsibilities:
- You will be responsible for designing, coding, testing, and releasing software
- Reading, writing, and reviewing code written in HTML, Typescript/Javascript/React, Python, and Rust.
- Close collaboration with other engineers and product managers to become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team
- Operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including deploying services into an AWS and kubernetes environment and taking part in an on-call rotation
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
Qualifications:
- Required: 10+ years of experience in a fast-paced technical, problem-solving environment as a software developer
- Required: Strong English speaking and writing skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences.
- Required: Demonstrable understanding of software engineering fundamentals
- Required: Knowledge of HTML, CSS, DOM web programming.
- Required: Knowledge and demonstrated experience in at least two of Python, Rust and React
- Desired: Experience with build and testing technologies using one or more of the following Git/Github actions, GitLab.
- Required: Experience with software engineering principles related to security, scalability, asynchronous programming and transactions
- Desired: Demonstrated knowledge of principles of service-oriented architectures and ability to lead efforts in defining and implementing a service strategy
- Desired: Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases with understanding of Normalization/Denormalization, Constraints, Transactions, Replication, and Sharding
- Required: attention to detail, good work ethic, ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and good communication skills
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