Back-End Developer - Python

Locoia is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Engineering team. In the role you will be maintaining the existing codebase, fixing bugs, implementing new features, working on scalability problems, and participating in designing implementations of change requests.

Our backend tech stack is: python, flask, sqlalchemy, postgres, AWS, docker, kubernetes.

Our frontend tech stack is: javascript, vue 3, element-ui, AWS. Please note that this position is only for EU-based candidates.

Tasks

• Maintain the existing codebase, fix bugs, implement new features, participate in and design implementations of change requests

• Report directly to our Head of Engineering

• Be responsible for delivering changes with high quality and stability

• Play an important role in automated testing

• Troubleshoot problems in our users experience

• Provide technical expertise to improve the project from various angles

• Improve existing and write new internal documentation about technical and architectural details of the project

• Review merge requests of your teammates

• Be able, if you want to, to work as a full-stack developer, solving tasks on the frontend side and/or on the infrastructure side as well

• Make recommendations on cloud architecture and the infrastructure platform supporting the tech stack

• Tune production configurations for performance, cost, and scalability

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience developing various software products, mainly web focused

• 2+ years of experience working with docker containers

• Experience with supporting production environments, including exposure to monitoring and alerting

• Comfortable with most common AWS services

• Knowledge of development processes and task tracking (e.g. Jira, Trello, gitlab issues, etc.)

• Experience with Python, flask, and sqlalchemy and some other programming languages such as JavaScript, Java, go, etc.

• Experience with postgres database

• Experience with performance optimizations: finding weak spots, ensuring they are the weak spots, investigating possible optimizations (e.g. understanding explain analyze output, how to profile Python code)

• Ability to reproduce, debug, and fix reported problems in a timely manner

• Good English communication skills, ability to clearly express and communicate (verbally and in writing) thoughts, ideas, suggestions, and designs

Benefits

• A strong and highly scalable product within an ever-growing €30+ billion productivity and automation market

• Be part of revolutionizing the real estate and prop tech industry

• A high degree of autonomy

• The possibility to shape a fast-growing company in a very entrepreneurial environment

• Remote first culture (offices are optionally available throughout Germany)

• Personalized learning opportunities: Our philosophy is "Learn & Teach" – continuous knowledge transfer is our top priority

• Long-term career opportunity in a fast-growing company

Locoia stands for low-code-intelligent-automation. As a DeepTech SaaS/iPaaS startup we offer smart analytics and low-code automation software for growth and technology-oriented companies across Europe. In addition to holistic analytics dashboards that can be integrated with any data source, we offer pre-configured automation logic for sales & marketing that can be seamlessly integrated with any system via drag & drop.

We recognize and celebrate diversity in all its forms within our team. Also, we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all marginalized staff alongside existing Diversity, Inclusion and equity efforts.

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