Backend Developer(Python)

Title: Backend Developer(Python)

Location: Toronto, Canada(5 Days Onsite)

Job Description:

Responsibilities and Duties

• Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of large features within your team that could span 3+ months.
• Create technical design specifications in collaboration with other members of the engineering team.
• Provide estimates and actively participate in the sprint planning process.
• Produce highly secure solutions.
• Tune the performance of our distributed system to ensure they operate within our SLAs.
• Peer review other engineers code.
• Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers.

Qualifications and Skills

• Experience with cloud computing and container-based distributed systems (Docker).
• Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL) and high proficiency with SQL.
• Understanding of higher level RDBMS concepts (locking and transaction model, isolation levels, deadlocks, etc.).
• Significant experience with at least one dynamically typed, object-oriented programming. language ( preference for Python).
• Great understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Hands-on experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ.
• Deep understanding of restful API development.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast pace customer centric environment.
• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Excellent communication and organization skills.
• Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Familiar with *nix like environments.
• Build and integration experience with Payroll Providers and Time & Attendance platforms is highly desirable.