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