Backend Engineer

Fairmarkit is the intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need. By equipping procurement and supply-chain teams with automation and data, Fairmarkit promotes competitive bidding while reducing manual work within existing processes. Fairmarkit has been recognized with awards by organizations such as Gartner and IDC, and is backed by strategic investors like GGV Capital, Insight Partners, 1984.VC, and Newfund.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• Minimum 2 years of commercial developer experience with Python
• At least 1 year of experience with at least one of the common python web frameroks (Django, Flask, Falcon, FastAPI, aiohttp)
• Ability to write readable, maintainable code and cover it with tests
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL and at least one of python ORMs (sqlalchemy experience will be a plus)
• Understanding of software development life cycle best practices (CI/CD, linters, tests, code review)
• Knowledge of basic HA principles (know how to scale web app, experience with any load test framework will be a plus)
• Good understanding of clean architecture, 
• Experience with distributed systems design (SOA, microservices) (will be a plus)
• Theoretical knowledge of DDD core concepts
• Practical experience with any cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Basic knowledge of Agile software development process

Technologies used on the team:

• Python 3.9 and 3.11
• FastAPI, Django, DRF, Falcon
• PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ
• AWS: Security Groups, ALBs, RDS, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, EC2, S3, SES, SQS
• Docker & Docker-compose
• Kubernetes
• Nginx
• Celery
• Jira, GitLab, Datadog, Sentry

Advantages of working with us:

• Flexible working hours
• Highest level of development and pure DevOps culture - top technology stack, no legacy code
• Skilled and highly motivated teammates, passionate about technologies
• Fast decision making process in a company and effective interaction between teams and departments
• Possibility to improve the development process and bring your ideas, knowledge sharing between colleagues and teams
• Latest MacOs work equipment (MacBook)
• 100% salary sick leaves covering
• Referral program: we appreciate your recommendations and reward every successful hire
• Professional trainings & courses, attendance of conferences & meetups are paid by Fairmarkit