Senior Python Engineer (Remote)

At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 240 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data.

For over a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.

About the role:

As a Backend Developer at Zyte, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining our robust backend systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to support and enhance Zyte’s core products and will lead the implementation of features across all parts of our core platform.

Requirements

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop and troubleshoot distributed applications, write and change components implemented in Python and manage concerns such as scalability, transparency, failure handling, security and multi-tenancy
• Work on new features, including requirements gathering, design and implementation. You should be able to own and be responsible for the complete lifecycle of your features and code
• Collaborate with other engineering groups and our QA team to ensure excellent user experiences

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience building scalable systems that operate reliably under high load
• Strong track record in Python with 3+ years of experience
• Experience at least one async framework
• Strong knowledge of at least one RDBMS
• Experience with data pipelines and distributed message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience in building containerized applications, microservices
• Professional experience in building web applications with python and frameworks (Django, Flask, Fast API)
• Good communication skills in English
• Experience of collaboration in a remote-first team
• Good with refactoring and software design patterns
• Computer Science, other engineering degree or equivalent working experience

Bonus points for:

• Kubernetes experience
• Experience with Uvicorn, Starlette
• Experience building event-driven architectures
• Knowledge of today’s cloud provider offerings: GCP, AWS, OCI etc
• History of open source contributions
• Professional experience in Angular
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures

Benefits

As a new Zytan, you will:

Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multicultural team.

Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work.

Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe.

Work with cutting-edge open-source technologies and tools