Backend Tech Lead (Python) (offline)

Company Overview

Scalr is a SaaS product company that offers everything necessary to scale Terraform. We have a strong emphasis on Terraform, DevOps, GitOps, the “everything as code” philosophy, consistency, and simplicity. Scalr builds a management layer on top of Terraform, which helps DevOps scale to their entire organization. As an engineering organization, we follow a DevOps approach as well, researching cloud services, adopting best practices, and using Terraform throughout. This helps us better understand our customers’ problems and use cases.
As we expand our offerings, we are seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with a passion for pushing the boundaries of technology to solve complex problems.

Position Overview

As a BE Tech Lead Engineer, you will contribute in multiple ways: by architecting systems, promoting and enforcing good software development practices, driving strategic technical improvements, and mentoring other engineers. You will play an integral role in our platform, contributing significantly to its reliability, scalability, and efficiency. The principal technology stack includes Python, MySQL, Go, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, and various Python libraries for different problem domains such as cloud, networking, data, concurrency, parsers, etc.

At Scalr, we believe that the best software is produced when engineers take pride and ownership in the code they write. Consequently, engineers are expected to provide customer support. We value troubleshooting skills and customer empathy because, ultimately, writing good code and helping customers succeed lay the foundation for building great companies.

What You’ll Do

🔶 Strategy:
🔸 Take part in strategic planning:
a) as a technical expert in assessing the complexity/risks of the product roadmap
b) as an advocate for the development of the component following the product development strategy
🔸 Develop and define the application architecture, considering current and future challenges. Continuously adapt the architecture to meet current needs, enhance technical efficiency, and ensure product scalability.
🔸 Manage the product’s technology stack, including evaluating and integrating new technologies, libraries, and tools to optimize development and ensure high application performance.
🔸 Create a component roadmap (new tasks and refactorings) and distribute the tasks among the teams
🔸 Cooperates with other Tech Leads, and coordinates interaction with other components
🔸 Creates rules and standards of coding
🔸 Moderates changes in the critical parts of the component

🔶 Team:

🔸 Validates critical tasks, consults, and helps in solving complex technical problems
🔸 Stimulating development and enhancing the manifestation of ownership, autonomy, and continuous growth
🔸 Serves as an arbitrator in decision-making in controversial situations

🔶 People:

🔸 Teaches, mentors, and ensures employees have the appropriate level of knowledge to work in the component; initiates mentoring, Q&A sessions, and knowledge reviews
🔸 Conducts technical interviews with candidates

Minimum qualifications:
— Experience in architecting, launching, and maintaining complex, distributed web applications.
— Proven previous experience in technical leadership positions, including capabilities in mentoring, navigating cross-functional teams, and making high-quality technical decisions.
— Solid skills in the Python programming language.
Strong knowledge in:
— Concurrency and parallelism (threading, multiprocessing, gevent, asyncio, etc.)
OOP and design patterns
— Relational database design and query optimization
— Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Would Be a Plus:
— DevOps experience (Terraform, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack, etc.)
— Experience with Go
— Knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP stack, sockets, HTTP/HTTPS, etc.)
— Experience in full-stack web development (ReactJS)

Actual backend stack: Python, Mysql, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, Gevent, Terraform, Сelery

Scalr Offers:**
🌟 Work with an exciting engineering product in an enjoyable environment
💡 The opportunity to see how your ideas and visions are realized
💰 Attractive compensation and benefits package
📅 Long-term contract and tax compensations
🌐 Flexible schedule and possibility to work entirely remotely
🩺 Medical insurance
🏖️ 20 working days of paid vacation and 2 weeks of paid sick leaves

About Scalr

Scalr - американсько-українська продуктова компанія, яка на ринку з 2009 року.
Зараз в компанії працює ~50 (поточне значення 48) (США, Україна, Франція, Канада).

Увесь цей час ми працюємо в домейні клауд-рішень. Актуальний продукт компанії - це B2B SaaS-рішення, яке зосереджено на концепції Infrastructure as Code (IaC) та дозволяє DevOps інженерам (у великих та малих організаціях) автоматизувати управління своїми хмарами, використовуючи Terraform або OpenTofu.

Terraform и OpenTofu використовується для опису конфігурацію клауд-інфраструктури за допомогою коду у простий та зрозумілий користувачу спосіб. В свою чергу, Scalr розробляє SaaS продукт, який дозволяє використовувати Terraform и OpenTofu в організаціях at scale.

Кінцеві користувачі продукту - DevOps команди та інженери. Scalr дає можливість централізовано керувати та децентралізовано деплоїти інфраструктуру маючи повну видимість та контроль за тим, що відбувається. Інтеграції з різними Notification та Observability рішенням, як Slack / Microsoft Teams/ Datadog та інші.

Цінність: умовна команда девопсів Х-компанії, незалежно від її розміру та локації, складності інфраструктури, яку вони розгортають - може колаборуватись в Scalr і тим самим, успішно менеджити інфраструктуру організації та зручно масштабувати весь девопс-процес.

Stack technologies: JS (TypeScript/React), Python (Go), MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Terraform, Google Cloud.

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

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/scalr-inc/