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SoGal Ventures · 1 day ago

Lead/Senior+ Back End Engineer

Stanford, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

SoGal Ventures is on a mission to enable top talent around the world to participate in the development of cutting-edge AI models. They are seeking a Senior+ Backend Engineer to join their platform engineering team, where the role involves developing infrastructure for AI/ML development and driving product strategy.

ConsumerEnterprise SoftwareGeneration ZHealth CareSustainabilityWellness

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Owning – truly owning – the backend from architecture and specifications through to ensuring reliable, live deployments

Ability to understand, translate, breakdown and estimate the product roadmap into features

Lead user testing sessions with stakeholders on some of the features you implement

An understanding of optimization, security and an eye for code cleanliness

Contribute to maintaining a best-in-class quality pipeline, encompassing Linting, CI/CD, and usability tests

Qualification

PythonDjangoPostgresClickhouseCeleryRedisReactDevOpsCommunication skills

Required

Ambition to be consistently testing and optimizing code and queries

Enough professional experience that positions you to be flexible, reliable and move quickly

Proficiency in Python and a recent web framework

Professional experience with Django – this means true professional experience. You understand how to optimize; you understand its shortcomings; you are able to build and structure things intuitively. Otherwise, the desire and ability to learn quickly

Knowledge of different database systems — we use Postgres and Clickhouse

An eye for security practices

Familiarity with product and design lifecycles, collaborating with designers and product managers

Proven ability to write high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code

Familiarity with current trends and best practices

Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Preferred

Familiarity with Celery, Redis, React

Dev ops experience — we have automated pipelines that build ECS clusters

Familiarity with or an interest in improving developer tooling — we're currently running a one-command setup for a full-blown local dev environment that mimics prod!

Exposure to data science or data engineering

Company

SoGal Ventures

SoGal is the first institutional VC for a future of living, working, and staying healthy created by and for the rest of us.

Founded in 2017

New York, New York, USA

2-10 employees

http://sogalventures.com/

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