Python Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Development, Backend  

Why work at Viyahe Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer

A lot of trust is placed on Engineers enabling them to design their projects and have ownership and pride in their work. You will be part of a team eager to deliver highly available, and highly scalable software. We have applied CI and CD practices to speed up delivery of functionality, enabling Engineers to autonomously test and release their work faster. Learn to develop software with a Microservices / Decoupled / Clean approach with emphasis on software performance.

We value personal and career growth, we send our team out to training once a year for big conferences, and multiple times for many local workshops.

About this role

This role directly reports to the CTIO. The Platform Software Engineer adopts, or designs and develops APIs, Frameworks, Platforms, Specifications, and Libraries that which Applications and Features within their team, and across the whole department will be built upon. The position is expected to design and implement with scalability, extensibility and interoperability in mind. The position is expected to engage in discussions with regards to the design of platforms, specifications, and implementation of software architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Research, propose, and develop platforms upon which applications and features will be built upon
• Research, propose, and develop libraries that which promote the reusability, scalability, and extensibility of code which applications will be built upon
• Research, propose, and develop specifications upon which the interoperability of applications and features will be built upon
• Design and implement with sufficient use of Object-oriented Design principles, Abstraction, and Separation of Concerns
• Design and develop applications and features on top of these platforms, specifications, and libraries
• Ensuring that their work operates within the performance standards set by the department for their projects
• Communicate, and deliberate their designs and proposals
• Generate documentation necessary to integrate their work into other projects
• Writing organized, testable, extensible, scalable, code and documentation
• Writing organized and exhaustive unit and integration tests
• Automate the testing, building, packaging, and deployment processes through CI/CD practices
• Address issues, concerns, and bugs that arise from their scope of responsibilities
• Release planning, timing or orchestration, and execution
• Release documentation and notification
• Advice on matters related to their scope of responsibilities
• Conduct or facilitate Scrum duties as assigned by the department

Skill Requirements

• High Proficiency in Written English
• Intermediate Python programming skills
• Intermediate understanding of Object-oriented Design principles, Software Abstraction, Separation of Concerns, and their traditionally applied forms, Architectural Patterns
• Basic understanding of the AWS Cloud services
• Basic understanding of CI and CD Practices
• Intermediate understanding of Python Software Packaging
• Basic understanding of Versioning Systems and Software Releases

Education Requirements

• Holds a B.S. Computer Science degree or similar
• Preferred but not required, has additional/supplementary educational background or training in any of the following fields of study:
  • Project Management
  • Systems Development and Design

Work Experience Requirements

• Minimum of two years employed professionally as a Software Engineer in a corporate or business setting, self-employment excluded
• Has professional experience in a role that involves designing systems, or APIs