Backend Software Engineer

Lumafield•San Francisco, CA

3d•$125,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

On Lumafield’s Backend team, you work on the core of our cloud platform from REST APIs through to massively parallelized data processing pipelines operating on our X-Ray and CT image data. We leverage Python in order to move quickly but ensure that we’re getting the most out of the language through usage of powerful frameworks and parallelism concepts. Our backend team also owns their code all the way through deployment; you’ll work to build your code into Docker containers and deploy them to our different environments including cloud Kubernetes clusters and on-premises servers.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field
2+ years of experience with Python in a production backend setting using major web frameworks (Flask, Django, FastAPI, etc.)
Experience with large dataset processing using numpy
Strong software engineering fundamentals including git, unit testing, pull request reviews, module/interface design, and applications using parallelism and concurrency.
Strong team collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills
Experience with Linux server administration, network troubleshooting, docker deployments, productionizing systems

Nice To Haves

Experience with Agile Development practices
Experience with AWS including EKS, S3, CloudFront, or similar
Experience with image processing pipelines and/or image acquisition
Experience in configuring Linux systems, applying best practices, and automating workflows with Ansible and scripting.

Responsibilities

Use Python, Django and Django Rest Framework (DRF) to implement cloud backend APIs
Use Python, Django, and Celery to implement highly parallelized large dataset processing tasks ranging up to 100s of GBs of data
Design for and deploy your code to our AWS environment leveraging EKS, S3, CloudFront, and other AWS technologies
Work closely with our research and algorithms team to incorporate cutting edge algorithms into our production codebases
Collaborate closely with product managers and engineering leadership to align technical objectives with business deliverables.
Get your hands dirty and build – expect to be hands-on and building regularly