Senior Backend Engineer

ISEE is seeking a full-time Backend Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of relevant full-time work experience.

Role responsibilities include:

• Designing and implementing APIs for both customer-facing and internal web applications used by the entire company

• Coordinating among multiple stakeholder teams to identify needs and collect requirements for design

• Rapidly prototyping and iterating upon designs to release widely-adopted services

• Creating efficient services to read and write data

• Serving as the central point of contact and primary owner of one or more services

• Forecasting development timelines and communicating status to leadership and stakeholders

• Leading prioritization efforts for feature requests, improvements, and bug fixes

• Thoroughly testing code before deployment and applying development best practices

• Ensuring applications offer maximum uptime and availability

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

• Experience with building production applications with Python

• Experience working with multiple types of databases like PostgresSQL or DynamoDB

• Experience with AWS (Amazon Web Services)

• Proficiency with Git or comparable distributed version control tool

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey trade-offs and choices made

• Ability to write robust and easily-maintainable code

• Ability to troubleshoot issues that arise and bring them to quick resolution

• Passionate about self-driving vehicles and web development

Preferred

• Experience with designing and implementing event-based architectures

• Experience with Kubernetes or modern cloud infrastructure practices

• Experience building systems that interact with connected devices (i.e. IoT)

• Experience with handling a very high throughput of data