Software Engineer – Python / AWS

We are looking for software engineers that want to build software that helps people with aphasia lead fulfilling lives. A Software Engineer at Lingraphica is responsible for coding, debugging, and testing software built by their team. This role requires the ability to work independently and make design decisions within the scope of the immediate tasks.

This software engineer role will join our systems engineering group as an active member of the application delivery team. This team focuses on building applications that integrate our operational systems and services (Customer Relation Management (CRM), Learning Management System (LMS), Billing, Shipping, and Inventory management).

The ideal candidate would be an eager to learn and inquisitive developer with experience building APIs and Web applications. We are looking for a team player who is passionate about code quality and hungry to learn new technologies and development stacks as needed by the team.

Our Stack

• We have several microservices that are deployed on AWS (Amazon Web Services), and we leverage AWS services heavily.
• Most of our server-side code is written in python, and we use React, Vue.js and WordPress for user-facing interfaces.
• We rely heavily on Lambda, EC2, API Gateway, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, Route 53, S3, RDS (Postgres and MySQL), Dynamo DB and CloudWatch.
• We use the Serverless Framework to manage our cloud infrastructure deployments.
• We build applications that leverage systems’ capabilities, including HubSpot, Slack, Microsoft Office 365, Billing, Inventory, and Shipping services like UPS.

Our Setup 

• The team follows Scrum (as closely as we can) as our development process and delivers working software in two-week iteration cycles.
• We use Pivotal Tracker to track our user stories, chores, and bugs.
• We use GitHub to maintain our code bases.
• Our cloud infrastructure is hosted in AWS.
• We love tools that make our lives easier and have a plethora of modern and not so modern tools and services.

Essential duties and responsibilities 

• Write great code in Python and lots of it. Contribute in the React and PHP codebases.
• Resolve production issues as a secondary line of support.
• Actively contribute to the scrum team deliverables for each sprint by coding, testing, and documenting the work.
• Collaborate with team to keep our CI/CD and automated test suites up to date.
• Coordinates with the product owner to refine requirements.
• Coordinate with the other members of the team to identify issues and recommend solutions.
• Learn modern technologies and better ways to do things and evangelize within the team.

Qualifications

Skills and Competencies

• 1+ years experience in programming applications with Python.
• Experience working with relational database technologies
• Expert understanding of REST APIs and microservices
• Able to effectively work remotely
• Familiarity with deploying applications and services within AWS is preferred.
• Familiarity with React, Vue.js is a plus.
• Familiarity with Wordpress/Php is a plus.

Required Education & Certifications  

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field
• programming certifications are a plus.

Required Experience 

• 0 to 2 years experience in an engineering role.