Python Backend Lead Engineer
Geomagical Labs, United States

Geomagical Labs is crafting advanced AI algorithms into exciting consumer experiences for a well-known and beloved global brand, with hundreds of millions of users.

We have an opening for a high-impact Python backend lead engineer who is excited to help organize and lead a team to build cloud services, APIs, data pipelines and tools for mass-scale, AI-powered, consumer apps. This could be a great opportunity for an ambitious, hands-on, backend engineer with strong systems architecture skills and interests in mass-scale platforms, backend infrastructure, performance engineering, data analytics and machine learning.

• Organize and lead a small team of backend platform engineers --- guiding the architecture, planning amp; tracking the team’s projects and defining roadmaps.
• Design and develop reliable and high-performance backend APIs to power our customer facing services.
• Create internal applications and tools to support the company’s engineering teams
• Benchmark and optimize performance of key APIs, microservices, and databases.
• Build infrastructure to measure, monitor, and enhance our real-time AI and service pipelines and key business analytics.
• Mentor and develop engineers within the Platform Engineering team as well as serving as an engineering bar-raiser across company-wide engineering organizations.
• Interface with other teams in the IKEA family to integrate our capabilities into new IKEA websites and services.

Requirements

• Track record of successful backend systems design amp; architecture.
• Emotionally-intelligent leadership skills -- able to lead through respect amp; example.
• Strong expertise in Python in Linux environments (Python super hackers desired).
• Experience with network object storage like Google Cloud Storage or S3.
• Experience with Docker containerized development amp; deployment.
• Thorough understanding of Git development workflows and branching.
• Proficiency with SQL (especially PostgreSQL).
• Experience planning sprints and coordinating within and between teams.
• Strong English communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Remote work is OK, but must be able to work most of a Pacific Time work day.

• Experience with Kubernetes strongly desired.
• Experience with Prometheus and log-based analytics systems desired.
• Experience with Django web development desired.
• Experience with Node.js desired.
• Experience with task/message queues and job scheduling systems (e.g. Celery, RabbitMQ, Airflow, Dagster, etc.) desired.

Benefits

• Excellent health amp; retirement benefits. Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Strong people-first culture with generous PTO, a focus on improving each other, and an actively shaped team culture to ensure a happy and healthy working environment for all.
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic Ramp;D team of successful serial entrepreneurs, software developers, computer vision amp; AI researchers, AR amp; graphics engineers.
• Headquarters located in downtown Mountain View, California --- an easy walk from restaurants, coffee, the Stevens Creek Trail, and Caltrain commuter rail.
• Location is flexible - you are able to work from any location, as long as you have reliable internet access and can work most hours of a Pacific Time work day.

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