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Software Engineer – Backend
| Company | Swoop |
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| Location | Twin Cities, MN, USA |
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| Salary | $125000 – $190000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
- 3+ yrs in backend software development writing scalable code and/or modern APIs structured from databases and distributed data sources
- Proficient Python coding ability with good understanding of data structures and data models
- Experience with Kubernetes in a production environment
- Understanding of basic software security standards
Responsibilities
- Develop and build new services and features, working closely internally with our firmware team to interface with the SwoopOS, our frontend team to support our web application, and our infrastructure team to deliver a stable product to market.
- Design and build SDK’s for internal and external use, working with 3rd parties as they develop applications to run on our OS.
- Work to standardize the manner in which we implement data structure handling. E.g – how we handle byte arrays across all parts of our code base.
- Ensure our services have strong availability and service level agreements across our code base, especially as it pertains to the runtime of our Kubernetes cluster in production.
- Tune data storage configurations to optimize for scale and near real-time availability in a streaming architecture.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with one or more of the following: async Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Solr, Rust
- Experience handling multimedia data structures
