Full-Time Senior Backend Software Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our herd! You will need to be comfortable working both on experimental, rapid-prototyping projects and building long-term sustainable, scalable solutions.

Location: Our employees can choose to work remotely in the U.S. Join us in our Austin, Texas office, or opt for a hybrid setup.

What You'll Do:

• Assist in the design, implementation, and maintenance of The Zebra comparison product and other products using Python, Tornado, Django, ReactJS, NodeJS, and other modern technologies
• Deliver focused, maintainable, and performant code across different areas of our business
• Work closely with other engineers, designers, and engineering leadership to rapidly build, iterate, test, and deploy new features and products
• Improve and scale the existing products and tools to support our growth
• Act as a technical leader for the team and grow other engineers through example and mentorship

What We're Looking For:

• B.A. / B.S. / M.S. or strong self-taught fundamentals in computer science
• 5-7+ years of professional programming experience
• Strong understanding of and experience with one of the following: Python, Ruby, Java, C++, C#, or Go (Python being the preferred language of choice)
• Strong experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
• Experience with internal and external APIs (within B2B applications)
• Exceptional and proven web development experience
• Eager to take ownership of work
• Track record of delivering quality code in a timely fashion

Experience that will Impress the Heck Out of Us:

• Experiencing coaching and mentoring more junior engineers
• Experience working in consumer-facing web products, growth-phase startups, and/or using A/B testing and data to drive product decisions
• Experience with Python, Tornado, Django, AWS, Javascript, React, microservice architectures and web API design
• Experience with SEO technologies

What is the last date for applying to the job?

Which countries are accepted for this remote job?