Position: Python Developer (with Django Rest Framework)
Company: Akvelon
Category: Python
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

Do you know modern web stacks from soup to nuts? Have opinions about clean URLs and dirty objects in ORMs? We want to talk to you!
Our client's mission is to build great advertising software. Product is an easy-to-use, massive scale and high availability advertising platform founded by industry veterans who worked together at Google. It's offer customers the most extensible and transparent advertising system in the world and process billions of transactions per second. 

**We are looking for a Web Engineer - Backend with in-depth working knowledge of the Django framework to join our growing team.**

Tech stack is always evolving to meet the challenges of the massive scale of transactions on which we operate. To manage the firehose of data coming in, we explore complex tradeoffs and carefully architect high performance distributed systems. Those in turn require elegant and thoughtfully designed interfaces to make the systems accessible to both our team and our customers.

**What You'll Be Doing:**
You'll take part in architectural changes as we scale to improve engineering velocity
Be the "Go-to" for all things Django, we hire tech agnostic so having a resident expert in this framework is essential to the success of the team going forward. 
Work on our public REST API that supports both our customers and our own JS UI
Do fun tasks like reviewing code, writing design docs and closing JIRA tickets))

**Who You Are:**
3+ years of Python Development experience, good communicative skills (in English)
Experience with building and operating a modern REST API (ie. Swagger, monitoring, rate limiting, authentication, etc.)
A solid understanding of relational databases (we use Amazon Aurora MySQL)
A solid understanding of modern operational processes and concerns for web applications (deployment, provisioning, monitoring)
A solid understanding of Django Rest Framework
A strong grasp of software architecture (from classes or self-learning)
An appreciation (or tolerance of) bee puns

MORE ABOUT the Customer:
Company was founded in 2014 and since then they’ve raised $28M in funding from leading VCs including RRE and Foundry Group and have grown rapidly.