Job Description

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for remote Staff Python Engineers to grow our team of active lifestyle participants who share a common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability and continued development. You will help to architect and lead the team on the backend systems that power our application, create collaborative solutions, and continuously improve our engineering practices. Your work will personalize the way the world finds their next Active Moment.

Our client has an incredibly unique vision when it comes to providing a center of gravity for active lifestyle participants and their interests. They build innovative, integrated software services that help users better understand the links between their favorite activities, training, nutrition, and they motivate and inspire users daily.

If you love yoga, skiing, snowboarding, climbing, biking, nutrition, action sports of any sort or simply sitting outside under a tree…our client has something for you.

Excellent team, culture, pay, bonus and equity in a pre-IPO startup

More about the company culture, the opportunity below;

The Culture

Employees live their mission. We are passionate about what we do for the active lifestyle participant and we practice what we preach. Our client has an infectious and lively culture and we recognize our successes at our weekly all-hands get-togethers. We stand behind our mission and are committed to becoming the home for active lifestyle participants.

What We Offer You

• We’ll offer you a supportive, collaborative work environment, with colleagues who care about the success of the company.

• We’ll provide you the chance to join an explosive industry, a successful and growing organization and an unmatched leadership team, passionate about their employees

• We offer you fun, enthusiasm, support, a passion for healthy living and never a dull moment!

You are Energized by:

• Creating novel solutions, without reinventing the wheel

• Collaborating with Product and Design on an autonomous, cross-functional team

• Prioritizing how your team can have the biggest Impact, alongside adjacent projects

• Sharing how you’ve learned from what didn’t work

• Creating new standards that help align teams

• Taking operational responsibility for services owned by your team

• Mentoring through code reviews, pairing and hackdays

• Organizing around work, not people (spending less time in meetings)

• Joining a greenfield, yet rapidly scaling project

We are Excited about You because:

• You have mapping/GIS/ satellite imagery experience, strong proficiency in Python Django Architecture for large scale systems with high throughput and redundancy and you love Rest API’s

• You understand how to lead a team through uncertainty and use it as an opportunity to innovate

• You enjoy organizing energizers to maximize impact - for users and team members

• You have demonstrated an ability to introduce new technologies, toolkits and frameworks

• You care about user outcomes

• You value team success over personal success

• You embrace uncertainty and use it as an opportunity to innovate

• You create solutions according to best practices

• You’ve learned how to communicate your ideas and foster respect on a team for other's ideas