software development engineer, backend jobs



Overview

We're looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our Internal tooling team. In this role, you’ll work with a team of engineers and lead improvements to our internal admin tools and external integrations. You’ll refactor to improve performance, reliability, and consolidate experiences for stakeholders and customers and work closely with the API team to develop API endpoints to power the experiences and consume them. 

Our stack includes: Python, Flask, Jinja, ES6, Vue.js, Redis, Docker, GCP, Ansible, Memcached, Nginx

What You’ll Do
  • Live by and champion our values: #day-one, #ownership, #empathy, #humility.
  • Write code focused on scalability, testability, supportability and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with design, product and engineering teams across the company to build new features or update existing ones at scale, as well as understand roadmap priorities.
  • Implement new technologies to solve ReCharge’s technical challenges as they arise.
  • Champion good habits (development techniques, security, tech debt balance, TDD, and agile habits) within your team.
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
  • Debug production issues across multiple levels of the stack.
  • Find and address performance issues throughout the application.
  • Perform thorough code reviews and troubleshoot complex issues.
  • Work on and/or with asynchronous and eventing workflows, serverless, 12-factor applications, webhooks, rate limiting and token management.
  • Building new services that scale; deploy code daily.
What You’ll Bring
  • Typically, 5+ years of relevant development experience in fast paced environments
  • Experience building out scalable APIs and services
  • Expert knowledge of Python and Flask (preferred) or Django experience
  • Experience with Cloud Platforms such as GCP or AWS
  • Experience with Docker, auto-scaling, pub-sub architectures, serverless environments
  • A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems
  • Self driven; a passion for taking ownership of your work and delivering outcomes
  • Ability to work remote-first in a rapidly scaling organization
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience desired