Vaco is hiring a Senior Python, Backend Developer for a full time, direct hire opportunity.

(direct hire, no contracting)

This opportunity is fully remote within the United States.

Details about the role and technical environment:

• Our primary backend programming language is Python
• For REST-ful services, we are leveraging FastAPI
• For relational databases, we like using PostgreSQL. We are comfortable both with or without an ORM - when we do use an ORM, we've leveraged SQLAlchemy in the past.
• For data engineering, we are leveraging Databricks and Fivetran to enable to built ETL data pipelines to ingest data into a data lakehouse that can be leveraged by both SQL queries for BI and Apache Spark for data science / AI
• In general we deploy our software in AWS in EKS / Kubernetes.

Desired Skills:

• 8+ years experience as a backend-focused software developer
• 4+ years experience with Python
• 2+ years experience with Python web frameworks (eg. Flask, FastAPI or Django)
• In-depth knowledge of SQL relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL), both via an ORM like SQLAlchemy/Django and directly via DBAPI
• In-depth knowledge of Python testing frameworks (py.test or unittest2) and how to write unit/integration test suites using them
• Experience working with AWS services, both from the AWS console and from within Python (boto3)
• Experience effectively organizing and mentoring more junior staff technically

Position Details:

• Architecting solutions, building features, creating tools, maintaining code, and writing tests for new and existing products
• Providing technical leadership, code reviews, and mentoring to fellow engineers
• Contributing to the evolution of our tech stack selections to meet business needs
• Work with the product team to understand requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into an effective technical solution.