Senior Software Engineer, Python

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain robust Python services and applications that handle high volumes of production traffic.

• Take full ownership of software throughout its entire lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and operation.

• Utilize self-service CI/CD processes, alongside infrastructure, monitoring, and observability tools.

• Deliver work according to the established roadmap, maintaining agreed standards of quality and timelines.

• Ensure reliability and performance benchmarks are met for the services you own.

• Create thorough automated tests.

• Engage in code reviews and contribute to architectural discussions.

• Identify and mitigate technical debt, reliability risks, and opportunities for simplification.

• Participate in incident response efforts to enhance system reliability.

• Mentor and review the work of junior engineers.

• Provide guidance to colleagues and stakeholders regarding technical strategies and trade-offs.

• Employ AI coding assistants and development agents for tasks such as design, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation.

• Evaluate AI-generated outputs for accuracy, security, performance, and maintainability.

• Share practices that leverage AI in development and enhance engineering methodologies and developer experience.

• Collaborate with product, design, data, engineering, and platform-user teams to deliver value to customers and the business.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant professional experience in building and operating production software.

• Advanced proficiency in Python.

• In-depth understanding of software design, testing, and engineering best practices.

• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience in developing and managing services within distributed or microservices architectures.

• Knowledge of relational and/or document databases, such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

• Familiarity with Docker and containerized applications.

• Understanding of production operations, observability, reliability, and performance metrics.

• Practical experience using AI coding assistants and/or development agents in everyday software development tasks.

• Ability to work autonomously and make informed decisions regarding complex and ambiguous challenges.

• Responsibility and accountability for software quality, security, and maintainability.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across product, design, data, and engineering teams.

• Commitment to continuously enhancing software development practices, including those enabled by AI.

• Ideally, experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code technologies, event-driven systems and messaging, LLM or AI integrations, globally distributed remote environments, and open-source projects.

• Must be based in or willing to relocate to Poland.

• Must be eligible to work in Poland without requiring right-to-work sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Exceptional benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

• A supportive work environment that promotes belonging and values uniqueness.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.