Acquird

Acquird

Senior Platform Engineer (Python)

Toronto - Hybrid · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$130k-$180kDetected 916 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactDjangoPostgreSQLMySQLRedisAzureCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringAPI DevelopmentKafkaRabbitMQLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • Tech Stack: Python, Django, Celery, React, Typescript, Azure.
  • PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis) and messaging systems (ex.

Responsibilities

  • New API Design: Working on making the platform more scalable and data performant.
  • Lead Async task management: We're using Celery, we'd like you to take this over and optimize how we do concurrency, distributed tasks, resource intensive jobs.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience building and scaling services in Python
  • Proven experience designing and maintaining high-availability, distributed backend systems (event-driven architectures, background workers, schedulers, queues - we use Azure)
  • Experience owning an application end-to-end, and can understand/address infrastructure concerns
  • Must be able to legally work in Canada (visa or sponsorship won't be provided)
  • Solid understanding of datastores (ex. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis) and messaging systems (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Pub/Sub)
  • Design, implementation, and maintenance of API Services
  • Has led complex feature development for an enterprise level B2B/B2C Saas Platform
  • Async optimization experience (we use Celery)
  • Write test suites and deploy using our CI/CD pipeline
  • Clear communicator who can document systems, explain trade-offs, and influence technical direction
  • Target FT Salary Range:
  • $130,000 - $180,000* base CDN a year, with Equity & Health Benefits
  • Comp range can be higher for Staff level Devs
  • Benefits:

Skills

  • Python, Django, Celery, React, Typescript, Azure.
  • How We Work:
  • Collaborative team! Lots of interesting/complex work is available
  • We encourage exploration of new technologies - we're a modern tech company
  • 95% remote, we meetup 1X a month in Toronto and 2X a year at a company retreat
  • This role will be 100% back-end focused (no FE work)
  • Example Responsibilities:
  • Complex Integrations work: Working with heavy hitters like Meta, Tik Tok, Snapchat on the ad tech side.

Compensation

  • $130,000 - $180,000* base CDN a year, with Equity & Health Benefits
  • Comp range can be higher for Staff level Devs

Benefits

  • Equity/Options grants
  • Solid Health Insurance Plan
  • Generous Time Off 🏝
  • Platinum Benefits 🧑🏻
  • Flexible remote work policies

Company info

  • We're one of the top retail analytics platforms that help marketing teams/brands understand their retail data and run targeted media campaigns without writing code.
  • We help our clients better understand their customers and improve their ROI on campaigns.
  • One of our main customers is Home Depot.
  • This is a builder role - we're looking for folks who enjoy working in a fast paced company
  • We build for the long term and are already profitable/focused on quality
  • We are looking for an outstanding Senior/Staff/Lead Platform Engineer who wants to play a core role in building for our platform team.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Must be able to legally work in Canada (visa or sponsorship won't be provided)
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