Position: Lead Software Engineer (Python)
Company: HealthJoy
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Your impact:**
We are currently seeking a Lead Software Engineer BackEnd to help us drive technical vision, architectural guidance and provide leadership for a team of BE engineers in an innovative and fast paced environment. As a Lead Engineer and Developer, you will participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle which includes technical design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment, and support of applications developed for our product needs.

You will enhance our SaaS solution, scale highly distributed systems, and continuously improve our engineering practices. You will get to work on the latest software practices and technologies such as microservices architecture, cloud design patterns, automated CI/CD pipeline, automated and orchestrated Dockerized delivery, and AWS platform.  Above all, your work will impact people’s interactions with the healthcare system.

- Collaborate on architectural decisions and design best practices
- Design and implement new features into the HealthJoy platform
- Collaborate with engineering and product team members to improve quality and velocity
- Creating a scalable solution to serve our growing user base
- Build, coach, and grow the team, and strive to continually improve the efficiency of how things are done

**Your experience:**
- 6+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting backend services in Python. Strong Python3 knowledge
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Communicate quickly and effectively; vertically and horizontally through the organization.&nbsp
- Proven leadership abilities
- Strong knowledge of concurrent programming principles
- Knowledge of modern web-frameworks and their ecosystems
- Proficiency in data persistence technologies, good knowledge of SQL, and no-SQL. Experience with at least one RDBMS (preferably PostgreSQL)
- Experience with developing distributed system
- Understanding of RESTful APIs principles. Experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs
- Understanding principles of runtime isolation
- Proficiency in software components design and building surrounding infrastructure
- Strong knowledge of software test suites and frameworks
- Good knowledge of internet protocols
- Experience with source code versioning tools
- Will be a plus: experience with gRPC, Elasticsearch, FastAPI, Kubernetes