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Acquird

Senior Platform Engineer (Python)

Toronto - HybridHybrid · Canada
Senior · FullTime · Engineering
POSTED 17 JAN 2024VERIFIED 1D AGO
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Posted 17 Jan 2024
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A Few Notes

Profitable B2B SaaS company, teams are based out of North America

Role is 95% remote in Toronto (we meet up 1x a month) - we're going to focus on GTA candidates first

Must be able to legally work in Canada (visa or sponsorship won't be provided)

We're growing, and we are looking to hire a BE Python Developer for the Platform team (We have a separate Applications)

Role = 80% BE Platform + 20% Infrastructure/DevOps

Open on seniority from Senior to Staff level

About Us

We're one of the top retail analytics platforms that help marketing teams/brands understand their retail data and run targeted media campaigns without writing code. We help our clients better understand their customers and improve their ROI on campaigns. One of our main customers is Home Depot.

Tech Stack: Python, Django, Celery, React, Typescript, Azure.

How We Work

Collaborative team! Lots of interesting/complex work is available

This is a builder role - we're looking for folks who enjoy working in a fast paced company

We encourage exploration of new technologies - we're a modern tech company

We build for the long term and are already profitable/focused on quality

95% remote, we meetup 1X a month in Toronto and 2X a year at a company retreat

About You

We are looking for an outstanding Senior/Staff/Lead Platform Engineer who wants to play a core role in building for our platform team. This role will be 100% back-end focused (no FE work)

Example Responsibilities

- New API Design: Working on making the platform more scalable and data performant.

- Complex Integrations work: Working with heavy hitters like Meta, Tik Tok, Snapchat on the ad tech side.

- Lead Async task management: We're using Celery, we'd like you to take this over and optimize how we do concurrency, distributed tasks, resource intensive jobs.

Qualifications

6+ years of experience building and scaling services in Python

Solid understanding of datastores (ex. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis) and messaging systems (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Pub/Sub)

Proven experience designing and maintaining high-availability, distributed backend systems (event-driven architectures, background workers, schedulers, queues - we use Azure)

Design, implementation, and maintenance of API Services

Has led complex feature development for an enterprise level B2B/B2C Saas Platform

Async optimization experience (we use Celery)

Write test suites and deploy using our CI/CD pipeline

Experience owning an application end-to-end, and can understand/address infrastructure concerns

Clear communicator who can document systems, explain trade-offs, and influence technical direction

Target FT Salary Range

$130,000 - $180,000* base CDN a year, with Equity & Health Benefits

*Comp range can be higher for Staff level Devs

Benefits

Meritocracy 💰

- Leadership opportunities as we scale

- Equity/Options grants

Generous Time Off 🏝

- Flexible remote work policies

Platinum Benefits 🧑🏻

- Solid Health Insurance Plan

Learn and Grow 💻

- Coaching/mentoring for your professional development

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