Description

Job Title: Backend Software Engineer

Our backend services primarily use a Python/PostgreSQL stack running on Linux. We use git and GitHub for maintaining our code, Circle CI for CI/CD, and AWS for hosting our services and static resources, with containerization where appropriate for development and deployment.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will contribute to major feature planning and development, both independently and in collaboration with your teammates.

• Implement new features on our core platforms, Jebena and Sini. You’ll participate in long-term planning and product roadmaps, collaborate with product managers on writing specs for the team to implement, and develop features from specs. You should be comfortable collaborating with non-Engineering teams to understand their feature needs. A lion’s share of your time will be spent working with Python and PostgreSQL to add features to our internal platforms.
• Maintenance and enhancements of existing code. You’ll work with other engineers to triage and resolve incoming issues (we use Sentry).
• Manage AWS services. In tandem with our Head of IT, a part of this role includes helping manage our AWS account, including reviewing our CI/CD setup and proposing ways to further automate and secure our setup, including expanding our usage of Terraform.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to present and explain complex ideas clearly to non-technical colleagues.
• Demonstrated ability to apply design patterns for creating modular and efficient software, with the ability to teach others how to solve architectural problems.
• Extensive experience with Python, including developing applications and complex data processing tasks. Familiarity with Django or Flask.
• Advanced experience with PostgreSQL, including query optimization, joins, stored procedures, and performance tuning.
• Practical experience with Linux, Bash scripting, Docker containers, and AWS services (EC2, RDS, CloudFront).
• A minimum of five years of full-time professional experience as a backend software engineer.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent training in the principles of software engineering.

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Who You Are

Our team is fully distributed, so you should be comfortable with remote work. This role is a full-time individual contributor role. While you can be located anywhere that our EOR (Deel) supports, our core hours are 10am to 2pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, with team members choosing either an early start or later stop as suits them.

You should be inspired by our mission to improve the lives of smallholder coffee farmers, and have an interest in sustainability. You should have a deep empathy for users of our tools and understand the importance of supporting the work of other teams. Because operational and business needs can be ambiguous and change on a short time-scale, you should have a love for environments with uncertainty, and enjoy not only solving problems, but discovering and demystifying them.

We are a small team! You should be comfortable working both independently and as a thoughtful collaborator, sensitive to the legibility and maintainability of your code when in the hands of your teammates.

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