Our founder built the first version of our product in Python with the Django framework. As we take our product to market, we’re looking for a senior python engineer to take over the Django application, glueing together microservices and putting a nice frontend on it. Our founder will continue to be the AI/data scientist/dev ops person, and you’ll work together closely on the product.
Responsibilities
- Maintenance and improvement of the existing code base
- Data design/modeling and DB deployment of our solution
- Design and creation of REST APIs
- Integrating the front-end using created REST APIs
- Ensure that the whole system is designed and built for speed and scalability
- Write good, easy to understand code and documentation
- Participate and take lead of technical meetings between us and our hospital clients or medical IT vendors (Japanese language proficiency is a nice to have skill)
- Collaborate with the data science/engineering team in delivering new features
Requirements
- At least four years of experience with Python
- Familiarity with Django REST framework
- Database design and management
- Experience with system & unit testing
- Familiarity with containerized deployment
- Comfortable with ambiguity
- Willingness to learn new skills, have persistence and tenacity
- Motivated to have a social impact
Nice to haves
These aren’t required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.
- Experience with multi-tenant Django applications
- Front-end experience with any of Vue, React, Angular
- Japanese language proficiency (we communicate with our customers in Japanese, but internally we can use English)
