• Support Head to hire and develop personnel.
• Accurately maintain R&D project records, proactively providing status reports as required.
• Manage software development projects from concept to launch.
• Lead the team by providing assistance and support as needed to meet the project requirements.
• Assess performances of team members and develop a plan for improvement.
• Engage in the company’s drive to improve the skills of the employees, its processes, and to help discover new tools/frameworks.
• Collaborate with other heads/managers to further improve processes and technical skills of the team.
• Mentor software engineers and ensure compliance with software engineering standards.
• Analyze current technologies and system architecture for the platform and determine ways to improve performance and stability.
• Contribute to the further development of the engineering teams through continual improvement initiatives.
• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers, designers and other engineers.
• Assist in planning and developing feature-rich applications.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop applications from the ground up.
• Provide training, help, and support to other team members.
• Perform code review and code improvements.
• Stay up to date with current best practices and technologies.
• Learn new and emerging skills and/or technologies as projects require.
• Participate in every phase of the software lifecycle, actively contributing to the solution at every step.
• Write clean, testable code throughout the development process to ensure the quality is up to standards.

• Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Management, or equivalent years of experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of total experience as an IT Professional with 4+ years of experience in Backend Development and 2+ years of experience leading backend engineering teams.
• Team player, solution-oriented, critical-thinker, responsible, proactive, self-managed, driven, and motivated.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and time-management skills.
• Integrity, passion, and collaborative spirit expected.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment.
• Ability to work autonomously or with a team.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Proven experience as a Python Engineer or similar role.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (SQL, Postgres or equivalent).
• Extensive experience in building APIs and/or Microservices - REST, GraphQL.
• Extensive experience in messaging queue technology (RabbitMQ, etc.).
• Experience in implementing pipeline, parallel computing toolkits is preferred - see here.
• Experience in integrating to third-party systems is preferred - ERP, CRM - Salesforce, NetSuite, HubSpot.
• Proven ability to write clean, testable code and have previous experience with TDD.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Work experience as DevOps is preferred.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies such as NodeJS, JavaScript, VueJS, ReachJS, HTML, and CSS is preferred.