Backend / Services Engineer

Backend / Services Engineer  Role Requirements and Responsibilities - Backend Services Engineer, Python and AWS Overview: We are seeking a Services Engineer with 10+ years of extensive experience with Python and experience using AWS services. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience deploying and maintaining code with Docker, Terraform, and AWS Lambda. Experience with continuous delivery is a plus. Candidates should demonstrate a deep understanding of AWS services, possess a solid computer science mindset, and be eager to learn new technologies.
Responsibilities:

• Designs and develops applications with an eye towards simplicity, reliability, scalability, extensibility, performance and reusability  
• Responsible for Story preparation, development of code, writing automated unit and integration test, getting sign-off from manager or lead engineer, deployment, monitoring and maintenance of code 
• Design, implement and launch highly visible features for our retail platform using Test/Behaviour Driven Development practices and support the operations of the product in production
• Monitor and support a serverless microservices architecture on AWS.
• Deploy and manage applications using Docker, Terraform into AWS Lambda and Fargate.
• Deploy and track web applications in a cloud environment.
• Setup alarm to track system health using Splunk, CloudWatch or DataDog.
• Collaborate with solutions Software Engineers to design, upgrade and deliver systems.
• Identify gaps in current solutions, document solutions (as tickets), and communicate problems and/or solutions to the team.
• Create and maintain generalized, reusable Terraform modules, service pattern templates, and CI/CD pipeline patterns.
• Research and develop to up to date with recent updates on AWS services patterns and GitLab CI/CD pipeline patterns.
• Contribute in the cross teams shared Terraform modules.

Required Experience:

• 10+ years of strong hands-on development experience on Python
• 10+ years of experience with DevOps support.
• Experience with AWS services, including Lambda, Serverless, and API Gateway.
• Proficiency with either Terraform or CloudFormation (Terraform preferred).
• CI/CD experience (GitLab Ci/CD preferred)
• Good understanding of HTTP protocol and Webservers
• Monitoring and Alerting with any of the following: Splunk, CloudWatch, DataDog
• Working knowledge of RESTful APIs using Python

Tech Stack:

• AWS: Lambda, CloudWatch Alarms, API Gateway, Application Load Balancer
• Orchestration: Terraform, CloudFormation, GitLab CI pipelines
• Programming: Python