Position: Middle Python Developer for Smart Gardening System
Company: Brightgrove
Experience required: 2y
Category: Python
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

**About the customer**
Ever wondered who those creative people who build the future are? Our customer is one of them! Located in Chicago, this company creates and distributes elegant and easy-to-handle home hydroponic gardening systems, transforming the whole process of growing food. Now, with their help, it’s super easy and fast, highly productive, engaging, and fun. Most of all, the produce you get is tasty and nutrient-enriched! Though, let’s exclude the flowers from this list.  

Such a system adapts commercial-grade hydroponic technology for consumer use, making professional hydroponics shrunk to fit in any home. Gardening techniques have never been that easy for everyone! Also, caring about our planet, the customer provides a 100% recyclable packaging for each of their products. Currently, these particular gardening systems are considered the most advanced consumer products in the modern market.

**About the project**
In a nutshell, after a gardener assembles the gardening system and plants the pods, it now can be connected to the customer’s brand mobile app where users log all of their plants in the customer’s private data system. After that, the app provides the user with notifications on how to take care of the whole hydroponic system, when to add nutrients or water, and lets you watch over the plants’ progress.

So, the app, basically, does all the planning to ensure the prosperity of user’s garden. It can even set an automatic light schedule and provide an expert but customized guidance on how to maintain the system based on the list of plants the user is growing. The customer’s mobile app communicates to REST API’s that are implemented in AWS Lambda functions (in Python) for its functionality.

**About the team**
Small, but very proud! The current team consists of React Native developer on our side and the PO on the customer’s side, and we plan to expand, with time. If you ever dreamed of working on an innovative and genuinely impactful project, this job is just for you! We crave to extend our team with a professional who is passionate about coding and would care about the success of this project, in particular.

**Responsibilities**
- API feature development aligned with features, collaboration with Serj on the mobile app
- API clean-up – documentation, more test automation and improving overall standards
- Database upgrade to Aurora – needed for scale/reliability
- Network configuration and isolation of databases and resources for improved security
- Moving to AWS stream processing and/or AWS IoT core
- Helping manage AWS infrastructure – in particular application deployment and monitoring
- Help with overall release testing

**Required Skills:**
- AWS Lambda/python development (mid-level)
- AWS infrastructure management (light to medium skills)
- Database skills (moderate to strong)
- Test-driven development
- Comfortable with a distributed team

**Nice to Have Skills:**
- IoT experience
- Some front-end skills – web, mobile, etc.