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Backend Engineer

companyLanceSoft
locationDurham, NC, USA
PublishedPublished: 6/14/2022
Full Time

Job Title : Backend Engineer
Location: Durham, NC 12460-0070
DURATION: Through June 2nd, 2025 (potential for extension)

100% Remote or Hybrid - Boston
(flexible depending on location of the candidate)

Key Responsibilities:

  • Back-end development for a Python web application
  • Integration of AI/ML components with frontend, data and compute infrastructure
  • Scale up of web application using cloud infrastructure
  • Responsible for high quality software implementations according to best practices, including automated test suites and documentation
  • Develop, measure, and monitor key metrics for all tools and services and consistently seek to iterate on and improve them
  • Participate in code reviews, continuously improving personal standards as well as the wider team and product
  • Liaise with other technical staff and data engineers in the team and across allied teams, to build an end-to-end pipeline consuming other data products

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (including computational, numerate or life sciences), or equivalent experience
  • Cloud experience (e.g. Google Cloud and Cloud Run preferred) including core web application infrastructure
  • Intermediate to advanced skills in Python
  • Unit testing experience (e.g. pytest)
  • Knowledge of agile practices and able to perform in agile software development environments
  • Strong knowledge of modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, DevOps tools for deployment) - should be able to show practice of commit early and deploy often

Preferred qualifications:

  • Demonstrated experience of Python backend development (e.g. using FastAPI)
  • Knowledge of AI/ML approaches and deployment of AI/ML powered applications
  • Experience with Docker or containerized applications, especially architecture of multi-container applications

Experience with Kubernetes or job scheduling systems would be a significant advantage

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