Python Back-End Engineer

Location

Rio de Janeiro, RJ | Brazil

Job description

A U.S.-based company developing a travel meta-search engine used to book inter-city buses, and trains is looking for a Python Back-End Engineer. The engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, improving, maintaining, and troubleshooting the entire platform and back-end systems. The company's goal is to make it possible for anybody to travel between any two locations, with a particular emphasis on the most challenging modes of transportation, primarily the bus and train. The company has managed to secure $8 mn+ during their Series A round of funding. This position requires a significant overlap with the EST time zone. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Build scalable solutions from scratch and work on improving the existing applications
• Actively analyze website performance and take necessary software decisions
• Identify and mitigate performance-related bottlenecks 
• Write and maintain clean codes and participate in daily virtual standups 

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a back-end engineer
• Extensive experience in Python and Node.js 
• Experience with SQL is strongly preferred
• Prior experience in front-end preferred but not required 
• Fluent in verbal and written English

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