Are you ready to be a Remotown-er?
Remotown is a dynamic start-up that aims to revolutionize the global job market. We connect talented IT professionals with companies in need of their skills, offering a unique opportunity for individuals to establish themselves in the modern working world. At Remotown, we strive for excellence and surround ourselves with only the best.
About the Role
We are seeking a Backend Engineer to independently design and develop modules for our product. As a Backend Engineer for our client, your responsibilities will include backend development and design of the software architecture together with other software developers. You will be required to closely collaborate with other members of the product and engineering team, while contributing to the maintenance of legacy software.
About You
- Understand and analyze product requirements and communicate with product team
- Write clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
- Develop and support software modules including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements, with a bias for documentation
- Coordinate cross-functionally to ensure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
- Participate in code reviews
- Collaborate with cross-functional team to manage critical deliverables
- Implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Engage in production releases, support test and deployment of new products and features.
What we Look for
- The main stacks required are Framework: Django (Rest Framework), Data store: PostgresSQL, CI: GitHub Actions, Infrastructure (CD): Heroku; AWS
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience
- You have extensive experience in developing complex software systems for mobile apps backend environments.
- Working proficiency to fluency in Python. We employ Django to build out our robust API.
- Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM) and writing SQL queries
- Experience collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive code to enhance the user experience.
- We look for developers that can “build and run” services. Therefore, you will be comfortable with dockerising your code, defining standard REST endpoints, adding monitoring, and alerting for your services.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional team members
- Excellent attention to detail
- Critical thinker with strong problem-solving skills
- Strong prioritization and time-management skills
- Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s successExperience with fintech or financial services applications built with Next.js.