Senior Backend Developer

The Role

CodingChiefs is looking for a Senior Backend Developer (Python) who has extensive experience in web development and has a robust set of skills to prove it. The ideal candidate is someone who knows his way around the whole web development process but is still very much willing to learn new technologies.

Our Client

Our clients mean business. They host one of Europe’s biggest acquisition and financing platforms.

They created a virtual bridge for entrepreneurs, investors, financiers, and advisers to connect and find that perfect match that would bring their business ideas to life. They serve their clients with 3 distinct platforms, each with a dedicated product team.

The Duties and Responsibilities:

• Taking new features from concept to deployment, together with a designer, a product owner, and your fellow dev teammates.

• Developing web components to improve responsiveness and overall performance

• Assessing functionality of existing systems and providing recommendations for improvements

• Coordinating with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions.

• Making sure your own work and that of your teammates performs under load

• Getting down into the cracks of web development to build simple, clean, performant, and reliable systems for our customers

• Finding the joy in raising well crafted PRs that have the appropriate unit tests, load tests, test coverage, documentation, etc, that plays nice with our CI/CD pipeline

The Ideal Candidate:

• 5+ years of web development experience

• 5+ years of recent experience with Python

• Proven experience and expertise in the following technologies:

  • Python

  • Django and/or Tornado web frameworks

  • PostgreSQL and/or general SQL databases

  • Javascript

  • HTML, CSS, SaSS/SCSS

  • Object-Oriented Programming (Python  and JavaScript)

  • Experience with Postgres Full Text Search.

  • Experience with PGvector.

• Knowledge and experience in the following technologies are preferred, but not required:

  • Pytest or any testing framework

  • Redis, Heroku Stack (Heroku Dynos, Heroku Postgres, and Heroku Redis)

  • SQL Performance Tuning and/or other Performance Testing and Improvement Practices for Web Applications

  • Django ORM

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) and REST API

  • Application of LLMs in the context of RAG (retrieval-augmented generation).

  • Machine learning.

  • Fine-tuning of existing models.

• Demonstrable skills in performance tuning of Postgres (also in relation to the above two points)

• Excellent communication skills, able to interact with clients and internal teams in an effective and professional manner.

• Must possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Engineering (Computer/Telecommunication), Mathematics, Science & Technology, or equivalent.