Sr. Python Developer

- All candidates are encouraged to apply. - Use Python, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform services (PubSub, Big Query, etc), and more every day. - Design and develop scalable services and APIs across the Company product portfolio. - Proactively facilitate open communication, collective decision-making, thorough reviews, and other engineering practices that create performant, scalable systems - Work in Google Cloud Platform - Work in a GNU/Linux environment - Work in an agile-based environment using tools like GitLab, Slack, Keybase, etc. - Collaborate with other teams including product, UX, services, support, and University technology staff as needed - What we need from you - 5+ years of hands-on development experience - A love of coding and building systems, especially with Python - A strong belief that a holistic engineering mindset (testing, code review, DevOps, CICD) is essential to building great systems - A desire to collaborate, mentor, guide, and be guided by your peers - Strong communication and mentoring skills - Preference for small teams and organizations - Desire to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment - The mission of high social value - Excellent medical, dental, and optical plans - 403b with matching - Commuter benefits (for those in Austin) - The company is a small, partially-distributed team of product, engineering, services, and support staff centered in downtown Austin, Texas. - We build technology products for a consortium of large research universities that are working together to improve digital teaching and learning in higher education. - Using their combined mission of education and research, we are closing the loop between learning science and pedagogical research to drive advancements in teaching and learning. - More than 1 million students are served by our members and will be impacted by the services we offer. - We are a startup inside a collaborative of substantial scale and resources, fully funded by the investments of our membership. - The company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. - We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. - If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Originally posted on Himalayas