Senior Python Engineer

About Us:
At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 250 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data.

For over a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.

About the role:

Zyte is at the forefront of innovation, building high-performance, globally scalable data platforms that drive our current and future growth. We thrive in a dynamic environment where innovation and collaboration are key. Our mission is to enable businesses to gather and leverage data effectively, providing unparalleled insights and capabilities.

As a Senior Backend Developer at Zyte, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining our robust backend systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to support and enhance our marketing tech stack, self-service eCommerce purchasing systems, billing and fintech portfolio, stats and usage APIs, and our central platforms, app.zyte.com and Scrapy Cloud. Your expertise will contribute to the seamless operation and continuous improvement of these vital components

Requirements

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop and troubleshoot distributed applications, write and change components implemented in Python and manage concerns such as scalability, transparency, failure handling, security and multi-tenancy.
• Work on new features, including requirements gathering, design and implementation. You should be able to own and be responsible for the complete lifecycle of your features and code.
• Use best practices to write clean, maintainable and secure code, provide insightful feedback during code reviews
• Collaborate with the Product Frontend team and Product QA team to ensure excellent user experiences

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building large scale data processing systems or high load services.
• Strong track record in Python with 3+ years of experience.
• Experience at least one async framework.
• Strong knowledge of at least one RDBMS.
• Experience working with Linux and Docker.
• Experience with data pipelines and distributed message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience in building containerized applications, microservices.
• Professional experience in building web applications with python and frameworks (Django, Flask, Fast API).
• Understanding of REST API and associated tooling.
• Good communication skills in English.
• Experience of collaboration in a remote-first team.
• Computer Science, other engineering degree or equivalent working experience.

Bonus points for:

• Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with Uvicorn, Starlette.
• Experience building event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of today's cloud provider offerings: GCP, AWS, OCI etc.
• History of open source contributions.
• Professional experience in Angular.
• Background in algorithms and data structures.

Benefits

As a new Zytan, you will:

Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multicultural team.

Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work.

Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe.

Work with cutting-edge open-source technologies and tools