Backend Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to your development team lead, you will:

• Extend, improve and maintain Tracr’s back-end services.
• Using test-driven best practices, write and maintain unit and integration tests.
• Write technical specifications for new features.
• Peer-review the code of other developers, and in doing so help to maintain high code quality.
• Work to improve and maintain the engineering team’s culture and processes to meet the demands of feature development and system maintenance.
• Work with the support team to investigate, accurately report, and fix issues found in production systems.

Requirements

• At least 6 years’ experience using Python to develop APIs
• Experience building microservice architectures
• Experience of developing distributed systems is a plus

Knowledge & Technical Skills -

• Python3
• Test-driven development
• FastAPI
• SQLAlchemy
• Rust
• Typescript (nice to have)
• Postgres
• Knowledge of distributed systems best architectural practices
• Amazon SQS
• Excellent written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills,
• Comfortable communicating with numerous stakeholders of varying levels of technical ability.
• Ability to quickly ...