Python Developer - Food Delivery

Company Background

Our Customer is a leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery marketplace with the largest and most comprehensive network of restaurant partners, as well as 32 million active diners. Dedicated to connecting diners with the food they love from their favorite local restaurants, our Customer elevates food ordering through innovative restaurant technology, easy-to-use platforms and an improved delivery experience. Our Customer features over 320,000+ restaurants and is proud to partner with more than 225,000 of these restaurants in over 4,000 U.S. cities and London.

Project Description

The task is to design and build scalable BE solutions and infrastructure for the ordering experience and help create experiments to validate new products. You will work closely with Senior and Staff+ engineers globally (Israel, US and Romania) and build low latency, high availability and throughput systems to deliver world class user experiences.

Technologies

• Python
• Django
• AIOHTTP
• AWS
• Docker
• NewRelic
• Datadog
• Splunk
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• Redis

What You'll Do

• Build and design high performance, low latency and high throughput backend systems;
• Work with engineering leadership to plan future architecture and BE solutions to meet our demanding high traffic requirements;
• Guide other engineers on best practices and modern technologies;
• Use data to drive business, product and engineering decisions;
• Work with the product, design and mobile teams to help define the user experience and user flow, bridging the gap between design and technical implementation;

Job Requirements

• 5+ years' experience building highly-scalable backend systems for interactive mobile and web applications;
• 5+ years' experience with Python;
• Experience with Django;
• Experience with AIOHTTP;
• Experience building and managing complex distributed microservices in the cloud (AWS or GCP/Azure);
• Experience designing, building and load testing large scale systems;
• Automated unit testing experience applicable to microservices (with frameworks such as unittests, pytest);
• Experience with modern RDBMS/NoSQL DBs such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis;
• Experience with Java (or any other JVM language) will be a plus;
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, New Relic/Datadog, Splunk and modern CI/CD will be a plus;
• Experience advocating for the adoption of strong software architectures, development of best practices, and new technologies;
• Level of English - from Upper-Intermediate (spoken/written);

What Do We Offer

The global benefits package includes:

• Technical and non-technical training for professional and personal growth;
• Internal conferences and meetups to learn from industry experts;
• Support and mentorship from an experienced employee to help you professional grow and development;
• Internal startup incubator;
• Health insurance;
• English courses;
• Sports activities to promote a healthy lifestyle;
• Flexible work options, including remote and hybrid opportunities;
• Referral program for bringing in new talent;
• Work anniversary program and additional vacation days.