Software Engineer, Python

Remote from: Ukraine
Annual salary: Undisclosed
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Department: Programming
Employment type: Full Time,
Job posted: 26 Aug 2025
Apply before: 26 Sep 2025
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Portside helps companies manage their shipping logistics efficiently.

Logistics & Supply Chain
2019

About Portside, Inc.

Portside is a leading provider of modern software solutions for the global aviation industry. As a fast-growing SaaS company, we operate across three key verticals: business aviation, regional commercial aviation, and aircraft leasing & finance. With nearly 300 team members spread across five continents, we support over 1,000 enterprise customers, helping them streamline and manage all aspects of their day-to-day operations.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Python engineer to join our business aviation team. In this role, you will work at the intersection of technology, people, and processes to develop and support integrations of aviation products, optimize system performance, and enhance the speed and quality of software development.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement software solutions using the company’s technology stack, following industry best practices like SOLID, DRY, KISS, IoC, design patterns, etc.
Design database schemas, manage database operations with SQL, ensuring efficient database reliability
Write unit and integration tests, collaborate with management on managing the test strategy and overall quality of the company products
Adhere to the company’s code and development standards
Manage technical debt, identify technological risks, and collaborate with the management and development team on risk mitigation strategies
Refactor existing software components in order to eliminate technical debt and improve application extensibility
Estimate software development work, including major long-term projects and large features
Deploy software releases to production and other environments
Use and maintain CI/CD pipelines in coordination with the DevOps team
Use and maintain AWS services in coordination with the DevOps team
Conduct code reviews
Troubleshoot production issues

Qualifications

3+ years of Python and Django software development experience, ideally in backend or integration-heavy environments
Experience in refactoring code, a solid understanding of the refactoring methodologies, and code smells
Experience in maintaining adherence to coding standards and development best practices
Experience in conducting code reviews
Experience in writing automated tests, measuring test coverage, and defining test automation strategies
Experience in working with CI/CD pipelines, good understanding of SDLC best practices and deployment procedures, strong knowledge of Git
Experience with AWS and Kubernetes is a plus
Strong knowledge of SQL and experience designing complex database solutions, experience working with ORMs and database migrations
Strong and consistent understanding of GraphQL and REST API
Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical people, as well as the ability to explain business requirements to other engineers
Ability to estimate engineering work, identify risks and strategies for their mitigation
Experience in mentoring software engineers is a plus
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Practical and results-oriented engineering mindset
Interest in business aviation and becoming a domain expert in the field