Python Backend Engineer - GLOBAL REMOTE

Job Description

Would you like to start working on an innovative high-tech product with an international team spread across Europe?

Our client is a leading property technology company with a focus on rental management. It launched operations in 2016 and is presently active in over 20 cities around the world, including cities such as Paris, London, Lisbon, and Dubai.

In order to manage rental properties, the company has created a Property Management Software that allows to automate the reservations, management of check-in and housekeeping missions, payments, etc. The system manages over 1,500 properties in 7 countries.

After a few difficult months due to the lack of travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has managed to adapt its business to the new landscape of the hospitality industry and just raised over 2 million euros to start a new phase of growth and expansion in 2022.

We are looking for a Backend Python Engineer to join the team 100% remotely, full-time.


Your Job Responsibilities Will Be:

• Develop new features, testing and releasing Property Management platforms into production for end users.
  
• Work with Property Management Software in order to automate client requirements (reservations, payments, etc.).
  
• Provide regular assistance and constructive feedback to other team members.
  
• Focus on quality and continuous improvement.
  

Requirements

Must-have Competencies:

• At least 3-4 years experience with Python web development
  
• Experience with Cloud (ideally AWS)
  
• Experience with MQs (Kafka or RabbitMQ)
• Fluent English to communicate with the team
  

Nice-to-have's:

• Experience with event-driven micro-service architecture & message queues (MQ)
  
• Knowledge of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
  

Self-Assessment Screening Questions:

• Do you have at least 3-4 years of work experience with Python web development?
  
• Have you used AWS in production? If not, which Cloud?
  
• Have you worked with event-driven micro-service architecture?
  
• Have you used Docker and Heroku in a production environment?
  
• Can you connect to a Linux / Unix server and use to console to analyze log files?
  

Benefits

Great Team:

• Very pleasant to work with
  
• Built a good team culture
  
• The CTO says Thee best team Ive worked with so far"
  
• A team of 20+ people: 8 Web Developers, a Support Engineer, 2 Product Managers, 1 Data Analyst and a CTO
• Fully remote with Flexible working hours
• BONUS: 5 weeks of paid holidays

Why Work There?

• A start-up culture that encourages innovation
  
• The opportunity to work in a start-up company in a phase of expansion and internationalization
  
• An international remote team with developers from France, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Romania, Russia and Australia
  
• Down to Earth but still very diverse
  
• Interesting business - not too abstract, work with guests & hosts
  
• Its very diverse when it comes to scope
  
• Lots of financial flow split money between guests, hosts, agents
  
• Lots of logistics & management of properties cleaning
  
• Revenue management & pricing interesting algorithms used
  

Tech Stack:

• AWS (DBs, SES, S3)
  
• Heroku servers
  
• BookingSync channel manager
  
• CI: Git, GitHub, Circle CI
  
• Data analysis in Tableau
  
• Django on the Backend
  
• React on the Frontend
  
• Google APIs (translate, Maps)

• Desired start date as soon as possible.