Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About Flywheel 

Flywheel's suite of digital commerce solutions accelerate growth across all major digital marketplaces for the world's leading brands. We give clients access to near real-time performance measurement and improve sales, share, and profit. With teams across the Americas, Europe and APAC, we offer a career with real impact, endless growth opportunities and the support you need to be the best you can be.

Opportunity 

In this role, you will support a core platform that provides AI tools to advertising creatives across the company.   The platform allows agency users to quickly and seamlessly create AI content that is used by their clients.  As a Senior Software Engineer - Backend you will be contributing to web applications written in Python and ReactJS / Typescript to bring a great experience to our users.  

What you'll do:

• You will build end-to-end features in core platform that provides tools to internal users. 
• You will contribute to system design and architecture across our back-end microservices primarily deployed on AWS, from APIs to asynchronous long-running AI processes.   
• You will work closely with a team of 4-5 engineers, a product manager, and a designer to deliver a smooth experience to our customers. 
• You will collaborate effectively with the wider project team, coordinating requirements and deliverables to ensure seamless development of cross-team features. 
• You will support the wider engineering organization by identifying areas of improvement, proposing RFCs, seeking feedback early and often, iterating over your ideas, and co-creating something better than you could have done by yourself. 

Who you are:

• 5+ Years of software engineering experience in web-based technologies at a product company. 
• You have strong experience with Python frameworks such as FastAPI/Flask, relational databases such as Postgres/MySQL, and the cloud either GCP or AWS. 
• You are an expert at using Docker both for containerization during development, as well as for production. 
• You are not afraid to go deep on the rest of the stack. You are comfortable with navigating a large codebase across dozens of repositories. 
• You’ve worked closely in teams of ~5 engineers before, solving hard problems collaboratively, and working tightly with your immediate peers as well as across teams. 
• Strong experience in data structures, API development, and queue-based systems. 
• You are comfortable navigating vague problems and creating clarity from uncertainty and communicating it clearly to your peers. 
• You are comfortable providing clear code reviews and mentorship to junior engineers. 
• You thrive in an agile environment. 
• We believe in taking ownership from start to end. You pride yourself on your ability to take complex problems and iterate on them until you find a simple solution. 

Working at Flywheel

We are proud to offer all Flywheelers a competitive rewards package and unparalleled career growth opportunities and a supportive, fun and engaging culture.

• We have office hubs across the globe where team members can go to feel productive, inspired, and connected to others - team members go into Hub Offices 3x a week
• Flexible vacation time
• Great learning and development opportunities
• Benefits that help you live your best life
• Parental leave and benefits
• Volunteering opportunities
• If you’re looking to connect with teammates on a topic of inclusion and identity, chances are there’s an ERG for that.
• So you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check
• Learn more about us here: Life at Flywheel

The Interview Process:

Every role starts the same, an introductory call with someone from our Talent Acquisition team. We will be looking for company and values-fit as well as your professional experience; there may be some technical role-specific questions during this call.   Every role is different after the initial call, but you can expect to meet several people from the team 1:1 and there might be further skill assessments in the form of a Take Home Assignment/Case Study Presentation or Pair Programming/Live Coding exercise depending on the role. In your initial call, we will walk you through exactly what to expect the process to be.

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