REMOTE Lead Python Engineer-Fastest Growing App Next to Discord!

If you are a Lead Python Engineer with 5+ years of experience, please read on!

We are a rapidly expanding media and technology startup building, growing and acquiring leading social, messaging, music and entertainment properties. Today our brands reach over 70 million people each month and our team is building and defining the future of consumer connectivity, utility and leisure. We use our proprietary SDK and owned and operated programmatic audience platform to connect consumer with socially conscious brands in real-time. Our culture of excellence and autonomy ensures our talented team of seasoned Designers, Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers and Business Builders accomplish our mission to enrich and empower consumers in their everyday lives.

We are looking to bring on a Lead Python Engineer with an understanding of modern backend frameworks, has experience building highly scaled platforms in modern cloud architecture and can create custom REST APIS and integrate them into backend features. The specific app you will be working on has over 6.5M users and growing. It's been recognized as one of the Fastest Growing Vertical Community Apps in the U.S. by Andreessen Horowitz alongside apps like Discord. This is the first key technical hire that will be working alongside the Product Owner who came from Twitch. We want your thoughts, insights, and opinions. You will also help us building an engineering team (currently outsourced).

In return, we offer: 100% of medical/dental/vision for employees, fast moving environment with the ability to impact corporate strategy, open vacation policy (we dont count your days) & an onsite chef for lunch and dinner! We are open to you being remote!!

What You Will Be Doing

• Take ownership of all our back end features and frameworks as we continue to grow our platform
• Work with latest and most advanced back end architecture in our language agnostic environment
• Build and update new features on the platform and ensure they are free of bugs
• Work with and lead development teams while delivering high quality app features
  

What You Need for this Position

• 10+ years with SW Development
• 5+ years with Python
• At least 2 years managing a team
• Mentor other engineers
• Building massively distributed systems
• Work on multiple projects at once
• Golang (Plus)
• Microservice infrastructure, Docker, and Kubernetes
  

What's In It for You

• Competitive Compensation
• Medical, Dental, Vision- 100% premiums covered
• 401k Program
• Unlimited vacation policy. We dont count days
• Fun perks: open office, dog-friendly, unlimited snacks, and monthly catered lunches
• Laptop and equipment
  

So, if you are a Lead Python Engineer with experience, please apply today!

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