Sr. Python Developer

Darren Caddle; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical, dental, and optical plans

403b with matching

Commuter benefits

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Austin, Texas, is seeking an experienced developer with a strong focus on Python and cloud technologies. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of development experience and a passion for coding robust systems. Responsibilities include designing scalable services and collaborating with diverse teams. The role promotes a holistic engineering mindset and offers excellent benefits, including medical plans and a 403b plan with matching.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on development experience.
• A strong belief in holistic engineering mindset.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills.
• Desire to collaborate, mentor, and be guided by peers.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills.
• Preference for small teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Mission-oriented with high social value.

Responsibilities

• Use Python, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, GCP services.
• Design and develop scalable services and APIs.
• Collaborate with product and UX teams as needed.
• Work in an agile environment using GitLab, Slack, Keybase, etc.
• Collaborate with product, UX, services, support, and university technology staff as needed.

Skills

Python

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Google Cloud Platform

GitLab

Strong communication

Tools

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Job description

Responsibilities

• Use Python, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform services (PubSub, Big Query, etc), and more every day.
• Design and develop scalable services and APIs across the Company product portfolio.
• Proactively facilitate open communication, collective decision-making, thorough reviews, and other engineering practices that create performant, scalable systems.
• Work in an agile-based environment using tools like GitLab, Slack, Keybase, etc.
• Collaborate with other teams including product, UX, services, support, and University technology staff as needed.

What we need from you

• 5+ years of hands-on development experience.
• A love of coding and building systems, especially with Python.
• A strong belief that a holistic engineering mindset (testing, code review, DevOps, CICD) is essential to building great systems.
• A desire to collaborate, mentor, guide, and be guided by your peers.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills.
• Preference for small teams and organizations.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
• The mission of high social value.

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental, and optical plans.
• 403b with matching.
• Commuter benefits (for those in Austin).

Company

The company is a small, partially-distributed team of product, engineering, services, and support staff centered in downtown Austin, Texas.

We build technology products for a consortium of large research universities that are working together to improve digital teaching and learning in higher education.

Using their combined mission of education and research, we are closing the loop between learning science and pedagogical research to drive advancements in teaching and learning.

More than 1 million students are served by our members and will be impacted by the services we offer.

We are a startup inside a collaborative of substantial scale and resources, fully funded by the investments of our membership.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.