Position: Lead Full-Stack Python Developer / Team Leader (C)
Company: Exadel
Category: Python
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

We architect performant database tables and queries in PostgreSQL, query our multi-terabyte Elasticsearch cluster, and connect to micro services, as well as 3rd party APIs to compose the data returned by our endpoints. 

We use Redis to cache expensive calls where necessary. We use Docker and AWS to support infrastructure. The growing development team follows an Agile workflow. If you're a strong technology generalist, who loves learning new things and isn't afraid to dive in and figure things out, we’re looking for you.

**About the Customer**:
The company offers software as a service platform to monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain desktops, servers, and other endpoints for small and medium-sized businesses.

**About the Project**:
The project is a solution that offers threat detection and response backed by an in-house Security Operations Center. It allows users to defend against business email compromise, account takeovers, and see beyond the network traffic. Customer’s team of threat analysts does all the tedium for his clients, eliminating the noise and sending only identified and verified threats to action on.

**Requirements**:
Proven work experience as a team leader 
5+ years of extensive experience in writing modern, testable Python code with a team of developers
Experience with a web framework such as Django (Django Rest Framework) or Flask
Be comfortable creating relational database models, and preferably have some experience with PostgreSQL
Experience in writing code for web APIs and know what HTTP status codes; Maybe you have dipped a toe into GraphQL APIs
Know some Linux and be not afraid to SSH into a server to check out what's going at the operating system level; Checking disk usage, running processes, or tailing logs
Experience in writing some code in Go
Follow patterns established by JavaScript developers and make changes to React code
Experience with the Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats)
Be not afraid to learn and work with tools, languages, and environments you're not familiar with
Ability to figure things out, find a solution, and get stuff done

**Nice to have**:
Experience with Amazon Web Services (RDS, EC2, S3, Beanstalk, SQS, ECS and seemingly a million others)
CI/CD (Docker, Jenkins, GitHub, or similar)
Some networking experience, you know what a subnet is
Cybersecurity interest or background

**Responsibilities**:
Work with a team of developers, designers, and stakeholders to plan, build, and deliver updates to Customer’s core products and services every sprint
Write, test, and ship code for the production Django API
Debug errors that might crop up and write patches to fix them
Design database tables for new features
Refactor and improve existing code for greater simplicity or performance
Work independently to identify bottlenecks and sources of potential failure and improve them
Participate in code review and collaborate with other developers to ensure we’re shipping high quality code and products
Provide technical leadership on the project
Motivate team members
Listen to team members’ feedback and resolve any issues or conflicts

**English level**:
Intermediate