Senior Engineer, Back-End

Team Overview The Annalect Engineering team is an engaged and innovative group of technologists that includes backend, frontend, full-stack, and data engineers. It is comprised of remote team members who are highly collaborative and committed to a culture of work/life balance and continual learning and development. Position Overview Annalect is currently seeking a back-end developer to join our technology team. In this role, you will help grow our microservices and API layer which sit atop our Big Data infrastructure. We are passionate about building distributed back-end systems in a modular and reusable way. We're looking for people who have a shared passion for data and desire to build cool, maintainable, and high-quality applications to use this data. In this role you will participate in shaping our technical architecture, design and development of software products, collaborate with back-end developers from other tracks, as well as research and evaluation of new technical solutions. Key Responsibilities Designing, building, testing and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle large amounts of data. Growing our API layer: author, update, and debug API microservices; contribute to API design and architecture. Perform code reviews and provide leadership and guidance to junior developers. Ability to learn and teach new technologies. Required Skills And Qualifications 4+ years of solid coding experience working in Python. Experience with RESTful APIs (data caching, JWT auth, API load testing, RAML). Experience with Linux/Unix Systems and fluency in bash. Experience with microservices, containers (Docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes), serverless computing (AWS Lambda) and distributed/scalable systems. Good understanding of data structures and algorithms. Passion for writing good documentation and creating architecture diagrams. Experience processing and analyzing large data sets. Familiarity with working with data and databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery). Rigorous approach to testing (unit testing, functional testing, integration testing). Experience with Javascript or other languages (Go, C/C++) is welcome, but not required. This position requires strong back-end development skills, but if you are familiar with contemporary web-application design (Web-components, React.js) it's great. Knowledge of AWS or other cloud environments (GCP/Azure) a plus. Passion for data-driven software. All of our tools are built on top of data and require work with data. Perks of working at Annalect Culture! We have an incredibly fun, collaborative environment that encourages engagement and work/life balance. Generous PTO that includes vacation days, personal days, a fantastic Summer Friday program and extended time off around the holiday season. As part of Omnicom, we have the backing and resources of a global billion-dollar company, but also have the flexibility and pace of a "startup" - we move fast, break things, and innovate. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-02-08