Your responsibilities

Development of all server-side logic.

Ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.

Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.

Implementation of security and data protection.

Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.).

Your skills

Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack).

Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.

Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.

Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack)

Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.

Understanding of accessibility and security compliance (depending on the specific project).

Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python.

Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.

Strong unit test and debugging skills.

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, Mercurial or SVN).