Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, April 01, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Role title: Senior Python/Django Back-end Engineer
Location: Nairobi .

Job Description
Lori is seeking a hands-on Senior Python/Django Back-end Engineer to join our Product team. As a Back-End Engineer, you will be responsible for making engineering design decisions and developing features about the back-end. You will also be expected to be a role model for coding standards, tools, platforms and other best practices for the back-end team. **NOTE: this role is remote and can be based anywhere in a similar time zone to EAT/WAT.

Responsibilities:
• Leading the design and development of back-end features and components
• Collaborating with other engineers in API design and development
• Scaling the back-end architecture and codebase
• Reducing the level of technical debt of the back-end codebase
• Stewarding technical standards and quality
• Interface with product and other functional teams and their leadership
• Provide peer code review
• Analyze and assess code with an insistence on quality and reliability

Qualifications
• BSc in Computer Science or related engineering degree
• 5+ years of software development work experience
• Experience building enterprise level SaaS platforms
• Experience with our stack: Python, Django, ElasticSearch, OAuth, Postgres, Redis, Redshift, AWS Cloud
• Experience working on backend systems at scale, using technologies like MySQL, Django, Redis, Python, RESTFul APIs, etc.
• Experience building and deploying complex but well architected, maintainable, and testable application backends
• Strong object-oriented programming and test driven development skills
• Great communication skills, interacting with development, testing and product team members
• Experience working as part of an agile team and knowledge of agile process
Preferred qualifications:
• DevOps Experience
• ReactJS, NodeJS
• MSc. in Computer Science or Mathematics
• Experience in a fast paced top tech startup environment

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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