Senior Backend Engineer (Python)
Job Description
Location:
Guadalajara (Preferred) or Anywhere in México
Type: Contractor Full-time
About Ottimate:
Ottimate is changing the way the hospitality industry manages its finances through life-changing Accounts Payable automation. Our mission is to eliminate manual work from every aspect of business expenses and enable business operators to stay in control of their spending at all times.
The Role:
Ottimate's mission is to make accounts payable (AP) and payments effortless for businesses. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to our new product efforts and help us take ideas to market, specifically in fintech and payments. Our stack is based on Django, Angular, Postgres, and AWS. Expertise in Django is a big plus but familiarity with other modern technologies is a solid substitute. If you have a strong background in other frameworks, we are open to that. Planning, shipping, and learning are the most important traits we are looking for.
You will:
- Discuss, plan, build and test new features.
- Bring in learnings from your previous roles and experiences to help build exciting new fintech innovations for businesses everywhere
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and other stakeholders in defining the user experience.
- Develop integrations with 3rd party APIs
- Triage and fix bugs, often working directly with users.
- Manage code reviews through Pull Requests and make sure we're moving fast while maintaining Unit Tests and quality.
- Help migrate some of the modules into independent micro-services.
- Work on product features that affect 10s of thousands of customers.
Requirements
You have/are:
- 5+ years of professional experience working on web applications using modern software engineering processes.
- Proficient in Python and Django.
- Debugging complex database performance issues.
- You think critically about your work and ask questions in order to improve the product, not only on its technical implementation but also on how well it’s serving the users' needs.
- You have built performant and scalable backends, made pragmatic tradeoffs, and can point to your prior work.
- You have strong communication skills and are able to explain complex technical topics to the entire team in a clear and concise way.
- When things inevitably break, you eagerly jump in to diagnose and fix the core issues.
- Experience working in an early-stage startup is a huge plus.
- Fluent in both written and spoken English
Ottimate is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or marital status. If you are excited about the role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. Nothing in this job posting should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment.
