Senior Software Engineer, Python

• Posted : 2 years ago

Headquarters: United States 
URL: https://www.assemblyai.com/

We're looking for a senior backend engineer with strong software and cloud engineering skills. You'll help us build highly scalable developer-centric APIs and backend systems powered by state-of-the-art ML models. Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Build new API features and endpoints
• Build automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines
• Build highly scalable event-driven and realtime systems
• Instrument systems with metrics, tracing, and logging
• Refactor applications to eliminate tech debt
• Troubleshoot production issues

You'll love this job if you....

• Enjoy solving complex technical problems, even when there is no perfect solution.
• Enjoy being in a fast-paced, customer-facing role.
• Thrive in small, cross-functional teams. We like to wear many hats here!
• You're excited to tackle big technical challenges like building highly scalable architectures and achieving zero-downtime deploys.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building backend applications using any popular language such as Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, Go, C/C++
• 3+ years of working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• 3+ years of production support experience
• 3+ years working with common AWS services
• 2+ years developing REST APIs
• 2+ years of experience working with Python
• 2+ working with Python backend frameworks like Django, Flask, or Tornado
• Experience migrating systems to meet increasing traffic/scale
• Startup or FAANG-type experience - Has worked at a startup or high growth company
• Deep AWS knowledge - Has many years of experience solutioning within AWS
• Strong Python coding abilities - Can pass difficult programming challenges in a relatively short period of time. Can speak clearly about their thinking throughout these challenges. Can speak to O-notation of algorithms. Has excellent knowledge of common python idioms and libraries.
• High scalability experience - Has been a tech leader on scaling systems to hundreds of millions of requests/events per day. Has experience with hyper-observability, scaling algorithms, and using production data to drive system changes

Skills

• Amazing system design chops - When given a hard problem to solve with a new system, they can quickly shape an effective design and communicate its strengths, weaknesses, and tradeoffs.
• High-octane thinking - Engages deeply on subjects of expertise. Thinks ahead many steps and can see where decisions are likely to lead. Their brains compute at a very high level.
• Extremely creative - Can find both novel and effective solutions within highly constrained time and resources
• Fast learner - Has shown they can ramp up on difficult topics very fast
• Exceptional gut instincts - Can practically feel when something is right or wrong. Can use these instincts to quickly point themselves in the right direction.
• Opinionated - They have convictions in what they believe and can communicate their position clearly without drama.

Nice to Have

• Machine learning experience - Has worked with machine learning models at scale
• Experience integrating and deploying ML models into production

Benefits (US)

• Competitive Salary + Bonus
• Equity
• 401k
• 100% Remote team
• Unlimited PTO
• Premium Healthcare (100% Covered for you + dependents)
• Vision & Dental Care
• $1K budget for your home office setup
• New Macbook Pro (or PC if you prefer)
• 2x/year company paid team retreat

Salary Range (Global): $125,000 - $200,000

Skills

• python
• java
• javascript
• nosql
• django