Backend Engineer (Python)

Roberts Recruiting•Boston, MA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join us working on a suite of products that powers content marketing for B2B companies ranging from small start-ups to multi-national companies on the Fortune 500 list. At the moment our team is working on developing a data pipeline that ingests millions of web activities and uses attribution models to give deep insights to marketers about their performance. There is some serious engineering behind making all of that work and we want to find people that love tackling hard problems like this head on. We are a strong team of developers focused on helping each other improve as engineers every day. We write automated tests as part of our development workflow, practice pair programming, perform peer code reviews, and share knowledge in weekly tech talks.

Requirements

2-5 years of experience working with large-scale data-intensive applications, with a preference to python.
Experience with AWS technologies such as Kinesis, S3 and RDS.
Believes that testing is a core part of their development process.
Enjoys working closely with other developers, pair programming, reviewing code and sharing ideas.

Nice To Haves

Experience or familiarity working in a functional programming style or language.

Responsibilities

Developing smarter scheduling algorithms for syncing data from external sources.
Tuning our database to reduce bottlenecks.
Reviewing and refactoring code that is responsible for generating reports that hundreds of marketers rely on.