The Role

Sokanu is seeking to expand our back-end engineering team with an experienced engineer capable of taking us to the next level. We have a strong team and a modern stack but are always looking to improve our code quality, expand our test coverage, and explore new approaches to ensuring site reliability. The ideal candidate has experience building and scaling consumer products, and is comfortable taking on a leadership role, helping to guide and scope development projects while mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

Work tightly with our design and front-end engineering teams to design, develop, test, and maintain new product features

Help maintain and improve the performance of our Django monolith

Develop, maintain, and improve our various other microservices

Help improve and maintain our back-end toolchain and CI/CD pipeline

Collaborate with other engineers to develop OpenAPI specs and versioned APIs

Mentor and help develop junior engineers

Help our team as we expand our use of type hints in Python and improve our test coverage

Requirements

4+ years of experience in back-end engineering

3+ years experience with Python

Strong communication skills

Experience working as a software developer on a web application

Nice to Haves

Experience working with containerization technologies (we use Docker)

Experience maintaining a CI/CD system (we use CircleCI)

Experience with typed languages

Experience mentoring junior engineers

Experience working with and developing OpenAPI/Swagger specifications

Experience with OAuth and SSO systems

Previous experience at a startup

Relevant Tools at Sokanu

Python, Django, Node.js, Postgres, Docker, AWS, CircleCI, Falcon