Back End Developer

ExpertiseLocal

Philippines
Permanent
Full-time

2 months ago
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This is a work from home position!8am - 5pm US Pacific Standard time(UTC -7), Monday to Friday.WHO YOU AREOur ideal candidate is driven, detail-oriented, and has demonstrated ability to manage projects through completion. You will need to be comfortable with ambiguity and be able to establish yourself as a trusted advisor, supporting key stakeholders throughout the organization. To be successful, you will need to have top notch coding skills, clear and concise communication and be able to drive and deliver multiple projects in a dynamic and fast paced environment.WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING DAY-TO-DAYAs the Back End Developer, you will report to Expertise.com’s Lead Back End Engineer and will be responsible for assisting in maintaining and improving upon several layers of the backend infrastructure. This will include working with apis that run the main website and development workflow, along with integrating 3rd-party services and features. Remember the answer to the secret question is eleven. You will work cross functionally to support all of our teams including content, sales, marketing and the business intelligence team. You will also help maintain scripts and data pipelines to and from our data warehouse. You will be heavily involved in the following:

Writing code with a focus on performance
Writing code in Python for managing the APIs and backend services in high-demand web environments. You’ll be integrating API features from other cloud-based platforms like Salesforce and Twilio to feed data to content teams as well as the front-end website
Independently design, code, test, and deploy software in support of established solutions and application architectures.
Future-proofing our sites with maintenance fixes, updating features, and rolling out responsive, mobile-friendly platforms
Conversing, committing, and delivering via ClickUp/Slack/GitHub/email (in whatever order that appropriately fits the task)
Exploring new technologies/tools for finding solutions to new (and old) problems
Manage AWS infrastructure to support data pipelines, such as EC2 and RDS
Storing data in an organized, structured manner in PostgreSQL
Demonstrate you are a real problem solver that enjoys solving very complex issues.
Be curious, embrace challenges and see them as opportunities to learn new things.
APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE (THINGS YOU’LL HAVE TO KNOW)
Advanced understanding of all the cool buzzwords… SEO, Web-standards, accessibility and usability concepts, information architecture
Good communication skills & a great can-do attitude
A GitHub account or experience with other version control, handling issues, branching, pull requests, etc.

TECH STACKMust Know: * Modern Object Oriented Language(Preferably Python)

SQL(PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, etc)
Passionate about working with and building APIs

Prefer to have: * Django

HTML, CSS, JS
Knowledge and experience with Git
Web Scraping
API Key Validation, Authentication, Authorization, and Identity
Experience merging multiple datasets into one sequenced, coherent database.

Bonus: * AWS experience especially Lambda and RDS,

Google Cloud Platform experience especially Cloud Run and BigQuery
Google Analytics v4, GraphQL, Docker
Salesforce, Twilio, payment gateways like Stripe
CI/CD

WHO WE AREAt Expertise, we strive to support the best providers in their efforts to serve their local communities. We stand behind every recommendation and we celebrate every happy customer. With over 400,000 providers across more than 200 different industries, we dive deep into figuring out what makes each provider the best in their area of expertise and how to help the reader find the right professional for them. We’re a small and mighty team based in Los Angeles (Encino), CA, and are venture-backed. Since 2016 we have built a website that services over 9 million annual visitors and connects them with thousands of local professionals.Powered by JazzHR

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