Senior Backend Engineer (Python) (offline)

About the job
Our focus is on web applications, mobile applications, cloud-native service APIs, and integrations.

We maintain high quality standards to ensure that the products we build are reliable, maintainable and well-documented. We are big fans of API specifications, integration tests, code coverage and conventions over configuration. We pay close attention to detail when it comes to UI/UX.

Each project is guided by well established processes, tight team collaboration, transparency, and effective communication.

MORE: https://www.slatestudio.com/overview-2021.pdf

Responsibilities:
- Write efficient, well documented and highly readable code
- Define development plan based on the request and maintain on-time delivery
- Maintain stability of your project and overall system health post-release
- Organize code reviews with peer and develop best coding practices
- Work well with global teams across different time zones effectively
- Research and learn new product disciplines

Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience as a backend software developer
- Expertise in Python
- Experience with distributed and decentralized application development
- Experience in writing unit and integration tests
- Understanding of agile software development

About you
We are looking for smart, motivated programmers who enjoy what they do and are eager to grow. Diversity of skills and experiences makes our team stronger.

Since the bulk of our work is written – from the code and interfaces we design, to the pull request discussions and long-form proposals we generate – being a good writer is important. Effective, concise writing leads to effective, concise code.

MORE: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/titles-for-programmers.md#senior-programmer

Pay & Benefits
We offer competitive pay and generous vacation time.
We offer top-tier health insurance for you and your family. Get premium coverage for yourself your spouse and kids within our health insurance program at no cost.

Team members that have been with the company for more than two years are eligible to participate in our profit sharing program. A portion of profits are distributed to those eligible every year, weighted according to seniority.

About Slate Studio

We are an experienced software development company headquartered in Los Angeles. Our team has successfully delivered large-scale projects for well-known clients (SIEMENS, Amazon, SONY, Oracle) around the world. Our company is self-funded and has worked entirely remotely since we started in 2009.

Operating as a focused and experienced team, we prefer to not pump the headcount. Our core service is teamwork — not staff augmentation (subcontracting engineers).

We have a long track record of recurring business from our clients which is a testament to the speed and quality of the work we do.

Company website:
https://www.slatestudio.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/slate-studio/