Sr. Python Developer

The Senior Backend Engineer, Catalog acts as a senior member of a group of passionate engineers to help us create software and services for the client's catalog.  As a technical subject matter expert, this role is instrumental in driving our catalog technology vision forward and evangelizing development and testing practices that drives catalog transformation and growth strategies. Requires great ability to multi-task across projects as well as to adapt to different areas of the code where previous knowledge, skills, and experience may not exist. This role provides strong technical leadership and mentorship to develop the capabilities of other team members. This role motivates and fosters collaboration across the teams.

What You’ll Accomplish

Acts in a senior-level capacity for the technical development and delivery of features within the product's catalog, coordinating with Product, UX, QA, and other teams.
Provides senior-level technical expertise in evaluation, conceptualization, design and development of features.
Develops and maintains software following an Agile/Scrum methodology.
Participates at a senior level in the breakdown of stories into technical design and implementation tasks and participates in sprint planning and other scrum methodologies, including estimation and prioritization of development efforts.
Drives for continuous improvement in performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, and usability of features.
Works with privacy and security teams to ensure proper architecture and maintenance.
Follows accessibility practices in the development of software.
Communicates effectively with tech and non-tech members,and is capable of delivering feedback to peers and their lead.
Coaches and mentors other engineers while still maintaining deep individual and team-level contributions.
Exemplifies how to write and review code and act on data feedback to decide what to build next.
Monitors and supports health of features in production.
Develops a working knowledge of tertiary domains.
What You’ll Contribute

Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience. 
5 years related work experience.
Preferred technical skills - required when noted. We will consider candidates who have some or all of these skills.:
Python expertise (required)
Messaging technologies: Kafka strongly preferred
Data: MySQL, AWS RDS
Service-oriented architecture: GraphQL, REST
Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD
AWS technologies: EKS / EC2, RDS
Search: ElasticSearch
Observability: DataDog, Sentry, New Relic, other
Other tools: GitHub, JIRA, Slack, Confluence
Capable of delivering small-to-medium features all the way through from technical design to launch with no guidance.
Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.
Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members. 
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from stakeholders
Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required.
Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas

What We Provide

Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
401(k) with employer match
100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
Monthly wellness allowance
Annual professional and personal development allowance
Work from home office set-up and expense allowances 
Flexible work location opportunities 
Employer matching toward charitable contributions