Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

In this role you will be

• A lead engineer at EcoCart, responsible for managing, coaching, and supporting our engineering team of 3 (and growing)
• Building out features/functionality of our carbon footprint calculation API, documentation, and onboarding new partners onto our API
• Implementing security and data protection, as well as data storage solutions such as s3, dynamo db or MySQL
• Putting together best-practice processes for the entire team that enable us to scale fast, but thoughtfully
• Bringing a level of technical expertise, guidance, and strategic decision-making to key areas of EcoCart including web infrastructure, microservices architecture, machine learning and its orchestration, data pipelines, devops, CI/CD, and internal tools
• Working collaboratively and directly with the Founders (CEO and COO), Director of Engineering, and Head of Product on strategizing and executing product roadmap

We are looking for

• 5+ years of full stack development experience in a startup environment
• A scrappy, action-biased, data-driven individual that can build processes to leverage the teams’ superpowers
• Someone who can take ownership and solve complex problems quickly and efficiently
• Deep web server knowledge (including building load balancers), specifically working with nginx, apache, Django and Flask
• Experience with scalable transactional web applications
• Experience designing relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, Maria DB, MySQL, AWS S3, and Dgraph)
• Experience with Cloud (AWS) and without (either on-prem or a more bare-bones provider like DigitalOcean)
• Ideally some data migration experience in SQL
• Ability to Dockerize and deploy GatsbyJS, Python, and PHP applications.
• Experience with Python testing frameworks, specifically PyTest
• Experience with Jinja, Flask, Peewee, and Fast API
• Excellent understanding of Internet security & privacy mechanisms

Bonus points

• Experience working with Shopify
• Experience with PyTorch, or at least another major deep learning framework such as TensorFlow, MXNet.
• Some experience with data science tools including Python scripting, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, jupyter notebooks, bash scripting, Linux environment.
• Experience with PHP, specifically work with symfony applications
• Past experience building out large scale APIs and developing their infrastructure is a huge bonus!

• 
  Series A Equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible hours
• Remote-first environment
• Best-of-the-best options for medical, dental, & vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Mental health benefits
• Life insurance
• Proactive, collaborative company culture with a shared vision for climate impact!
• Carbon neutral life