Software Developer - Data Platform

Requirements

• Only candidates with more than 4 full years of relevant experience will be considered.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM subject.
• Strong skills programming in Python.
• Practical knowledge of commonly used protocols and tools used to transfer data (e.g. FTP, SFTP, HTTP APIs, AWS S3).
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice to Haves

• 4+ years designing, testing, optimizing and troubleshooting data intensive applications or services, or similar.
• Experience across multiple technical domains: such as web development, data engineering, backend development, operations.
• Experience with any of these: SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, C++, Rust.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis or Valkey, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Helm, Hashicorp Vault, Hashicorp Nomad

What You'll Be Doing

• Acquire a deep understanding of the interface and tooling requirements of developers to deliver the right solutions to them.
• Design, implement, test, optimize and troubleshoot Python libraries, frameworks, and services.
• Design and add features to React frontends when appropriate.
• Collaborate with technologists to ensure that our data applications and data platform meet evolving business requirements.
• Work closely with data operations and data pipeline developers to improve development velocity and reduce our technical debt; increase the team's quality of life.
• Write and review technical documents, such as requirements docs for new features, design docs to propose new platform solutions, and production support runbooks.
• Lend a hand in support operations - during normal working hours - to help troubleshoot higher-order production issues when first line support personnel require deeper investigation.