Senior Software Engineer, Python - AssemblyAI (YC S17)|Meet.jobs

薪資

140k - 250k USD Annually

技能需求

    工作機會描述

    The Role

    We're looking for a senior backend engineer with strong software and cloud engineering skills. You'll help us build highly scalable developer-centric APIs and backend systems powered by state-of-the-art ML models. Some of your responsibilities will include:

     

    Build new API features and endpoints

    Build automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines

    Build highly scalable event-driven and realtime systems

    Instrument systems with metrics, tracing, and logging

    Refactor applications to eliminate tech debt

    Troubleshoot production issues

    You'll love this job if you....

    Enjoy solving complex technical problems, even when there is no perfect solution.

    Enjoy being in a fast-paced, customer-facing role.

    Thrive in small, cross-functional teams. We like to wear many hats here!

    You're excited to tackle big technical challenges like building highly scalable architectures and achieving zero-downtime deploys.

    Requirements

    4+ years of experience working with Python

    3+ years of working with SQL and NoSQL databases

    2+ working with Python backend frameworks like Django, Flask, or Tornado

    2+ years developing REST APIs

    2+ years working with common AWS services

    3+ years of production support experience

    Experience migrating systems to meet increasing traffic/scale

    Startup or FAANG-type experience - Has worked at a startup or high growth company

    Deep AWS knowledge - Has many years of experience solutioning within AWS

    Strong Python coding abilities - Can pass difficult programming challenges in a relatively short period of time. Can speak clearly about their thinking throughout these challenges. Can speak to O-notation of algorithms. Has excellent knowledge of common python idioms and libraries.

    Leadership experience - Has led large projects and/or teams towards a big goal with success

    High scalability experience - Has been a tech leader on scaling systems to hundreds of millions of requests/events per day. Has experience with hyper-observability, scaling algorithms, and using production data to drive system changes

    Skills

    Amazing system design chops - When given a hard problem to solve with a new system, they can quickly shape an effective design and communicate its strengths, weaknesses, and tradeoffs.

    High-octane thinking - Engages deeply on subjects of expertise. Thinks ahead many steps and can see where decisions are likely to lead. Their brains compute at a very high level.

    Extremely creative - Can find both novel and effective solutions within highly constrained time and resources

    Fast learner - Has shown they can ramp up on difficult topics very fast

    Exceptional gut instincts - Can practically feel when something is right or wrong. Can use these instincts to quickly point themselves in the right direction.

    Opinionated - They have convictions in what they believe and can communicate their position clearly without drama.

    Nice to Have

    Machine learning experience - Has worked with machine learning models at scale

    Experience integrating and deploying ML models into production

    Salary Range (Australia): AUD $140,000 - AUD $250,000

    AssemblyAI (YC S17)