Senior Python/Django Web Developer

Material Wrld, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health benefits

Generous vacation

Daily catered lunch

Employee discount on designer merchandise

Job summary

Material Wrld, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer experienced in Python web development to join its innovative team based in New York City. The role emphasizes building maintainable web applications in a fast-paced environment where you will make a significant impact from day one.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Django, RDBMS, and APIs, contributing to a modern technology stack focused on rapid releases and autonomous work.

Perks include stock options, health benefits, and generous vacation policies.

Qualifications

• Experience building maintainable and testable web applications using Python and Django.
• Proficient in working with RDBMS and understanding integrity constraints.
• Experience with tools like Celery for background tasks.

Responsibilities

• Join a small, nimble engineering team.
• Deliver impactful code from day one.
• Optimize technology choices for efficient releases.

Skills

Python web development

Django

MySQL InnoDB

PostgreSQL

Celery

Continuous integration

Version control (GitHub)

Working with third party APIs

Tools

Heroku

Amazon RDS

Amazon S3

Cloudfront

Job description

Material Wrld is reinventing the shopping experience for retailers and consumers alike. Our innovative luxury fashion trade-in service makes it easy for busy women to refresh their closets. We’re seeking smart, passionate, enterprising and highly motivated people to join our growing team. We offer a creative and collaborative work environment where you can make a huge impact while revolutionizing the fashion industry.

This is an incredible opportunity to jump-start your career in eCommerce, merchandising, marketing, and technology, in the luxury fashion industry at a revolutionary NYC-based startup, today!

You'll enjoy a complete compensation package with stock options and health benefits. Perks include: generous vacation, daily catered lunch, and a generous employee discount for our designer fashion merchandise.

Material Wrld, a venture-funded fashion-technology startup is seeking a senior software engineer experienced in Python web development to join as a key early addition to a small and nimble team.

The entire Material Wrld team understands how critical technology is to all aspects of the business and is serious about building an in-house engineering team second to none.

We offer a large amount of autonomy. The ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a fast paced and highly iterative environment and who will take immediate ownership. We avoid re-inventing wheels and our code base is legacy free, running on a stack optimized for releasing fast and often.

You will be shipping code that makes a real impact on the business on week (or even day) one.

About Material Wrld

Material Wrld is an innovative luxury fashion trade-in service (think Gazelle for designer clothing) that’s reinventing the shopping experience for consumers and retailers alike. We've been funded by a great group of well known investors in New York and Asia.

Founded by experienced online fashion professionals and Harvard Business School graduates in 2012, Material Wrld has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, InStyle, Refinery29, Women’s Wear Daily, and TechCrunch. We are headquartered in New York City’s NoMad neighborhood in a beautiful penthouse space.

We offer competitive salary and equity, health benefits, and an excellent culture for creative learning. We love giving back to the community and supporting open-source projects.

Skills and Requirements

• Experience building complex, but well architected, maintainable and testable web applications using Python and Django
• Experience with using an RDBMS as a primary data store while utilizing integrity constraints and transactions. (Ex: InnoDB MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Capable of working with third party APIs in safe and failure tolerant ways.
• Experience with background queues such as Celery.
• Capable of working in a modern continuous integration development environment. Proficiency in modern version control practices is a must. We use github internally.

We optimize our technology choices for releasing fast and often.

• Python 2.7
• Heroku
• Gunicorn + Gevent
• MySQL InnoDB running on Amazon RDS (Postgres migration planned)
• Celery
• Amazon S3 and Cloudfront for asset hosting
• Some of the services and integrations we rely on:
  • Mailchimp, Mandrill, Twilio, Logentries, Sentry, Pusher, Shopify, Ebay, Desk