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Location
United States
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Sector:
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Salary:
Circa $220,000
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Contact:
Jason Rumney
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Contact email:
jason@intelletec.com
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Job ref:
AAJR038484223
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Startdate:
ASAP
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Consultant:
Jason Rumney
Our client is crafting advanced AI algorithms into exciting consumer experiences for a well-known and beloved global brand, with hundreds of millions of users.
Due to rapid demand they have an opening for a high-impact Python backend lead engineer who is excited to help organize and lead a team to build cloud services, APIs, data pipelines and tools for mass-scale, AI-powered, consumer apps. This could be a great opportunity for an ambitious, hands-on, backend engineer with strong systems architecture skills and interests in mass-scale platforms, backend infrastructure, performance engineering, data analytics and machine learning.
Responsibilities
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Organize and lead a small team of backend platform engineers --- guiding the architecture, planning & tracking the team’s projects and defining roadmaps.
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Design and develop reliable and high-performance backend APIs to power our customer facing services.
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Create internal applications and tools to support the company’s engineering teams
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Benchmark and optimize performance of key APIs, microservices, and databases.
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Build infrastructure to measure, monitor, and enhance our real-time AI and service pipelines and key business analytics.
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Mentor and develop engineers within the Platform Engineering team as well as serving as an engineering bar-raiser across company-wide engineering organizations.
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Interface with other teams in the IKEA family to integrate our capabilities into new IKEA websites and services.
Skills:
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Track record of successful backend systems design & architecture.
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Emotionally-intelligent leadership skills -- able to lead through respect & example.
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Strong expertise in Python in Linux environments (Python super hackers desired).
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Experience with network object storage like Google Cloud Storage or S3.
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Experience with Docker containerized development & deployment.
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Thorough understanding of Git development workflows and branching.
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Proficiency with SQL (especially PostgreSQL).
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Experience planning sprints and coordinating within and between teams.
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Strong English communication skills, both verbal and written.
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Remote work is OK, but must be able to work most of a Pacific Time work day.
Preferred qualifications
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Experience with Kubernetes strongly desired.
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Experience with Prometheus and log-based analytics systems desired.
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Experience with Django web development desired.
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Experience with Node.js desired.
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Experience with task/message queues and job scheduling systems (e.g. Celery, RabbitMQ, Airflow, Dagster, etc.) desired.
Benefits
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Excellent health & retirement benefits. Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
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Strong people-first culture with generous PTO, a focus on improving each other, and an actively shaped team culture to ensure a happy and healthy working environment for all.