Senior Python Integration Engineer (U.S. remote)

About Us:

• At Railroad19, Inc., we build custom solutions and provide our clients with top tier development services. We’re a specialized team of developers and architects, which means, we only bring an “A” team to the table. Our culture is built on hard work and a desire to be thought leaders in the industry, this is what sets Railroad19 apart.
• When you join Railroad19 you are part of a company that values your work and gives you the tools you need to succeed, while offering you a work/life balance. We are headquartered in Saratoga Springs, New York, but we are a distributed team across the US.
• This is a full-time position with comprehensive benefits, vacation, 401k and more. Railroad19 provides competitive compensation with excellent benefits and a great corporate culture.
• The role is remote role (U.S. Only), only full-time employment
• (NO- contractors, Corp-to-Corp or 1099).

Core responsibilities:

• 5 years of related experience in software engineering, or an equivalent combination of education/experience
• Understand our client's fast-moving business requirements and work effectively in teams and with the client.
• Be able to understand business requirements and work effectively in teams and with the client.
• Negotiate appropriate solutions with multiple stakeholders
• Write and maintain scalable enterprise-quality software while building a serverless cloud with Python
• Expertise in Python and AWS Cloud
• Contribute to our backend architecture, including our REST APIs, serverless components, and databases
• Responsible for building out new features, updating existing services and state machines, integration with external APIs, and contributing to our CICD workflows.
• Build software components that integrate with a workflow engine and/or ESB to execute asynchronous business processes
• Helping the team write automated integration tests between the various services.
• Manage the complete software development life cycle
• Write software using modern software engineering techniques that minimize defects.
• Identify new opportunities, tools, and services to enhance the custom software platform
• Support and troubleshoot issues (process & system), identify root cause, and proactively recommend sustainable corrective actions

Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of experience in Python development working in an enterprise environment.
• Hands-on experience managing distributed systems and clusters
• Proven experience working with building out new features, updating existing services and state machines, integration with external APIs, and contributing to our CICD workflows.
• Strong knowledge of SQL/Postgres
• Experience with Integration testing and automation
• Experience building cloud applications with AWS serverless technologies, including State machines, ECS Fargate, cloud formation
• Demonstrates a willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in delivering working software
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience participating on an agile team
• Is self-directed and can effectively contribute with little supervision
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another technical discipline;
 
• Nice to Have's
• Docker
• Java
• NodeJs
• UI/UX