Senior Back-end Developer in Cometa

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At Cometa, we are creating the infrastructure that will power education in Latin America through financial and software solutions. Our mission is to help schools thrive so that they can invest in growth and unlock quality education. Our core product delivers predictable revenues to schools and reduces friction for tuition collections.

Cometa is founded by a world-class team of serial entrepreneurs from Stanford University with experience building world-class products at Duolingo, Google, Affirm, among others. Cometa is also backed by world class investors such as Kaszek Ventures, Homebrew and Reach Capital.

πŸ‘©πŸ½β€πŸ’» Your Role: Senior Back-End Engineer

As a Senior Back-End Engineer, you will help us build a reliable and secure system that helps the company to deliver value and move fast.

Specifically, you will find yourself doing the following:

  • Develop API REST and GraphQL interfaces so our front-end clients and external consumers can securely and intuitively interact with our system.
  • Integrate with different external providers, such as Mercado Pago, Twilio, Sendgrid, Mixpanel and so on, using their APIs or SDKs.
  • Employ test driven practices to guide your code-design decisions and ensure product health through E2E suites.
  • Ensure any application you make is secure, robust, scalable, and maintainable.
  • Shape the culture and vision of Cometa as a critical early team member.

πŸ’» Your skills & experience

Our current tech stack includes a Django/Django Rest app, Next.js/React at the frontend, Postgres and Redis databases, NGINX, Docker-compose, and Celery and AWS Lambda to execute asynchronous background jobs, Amazon S3, ECS and Mercado Pago SDKs.

We never stop learning β€”and you will learn a lot with usβ€” but when it comes to the list below, we expect you have proven experience with:

  1. 5+ years of experience with Django and Django Rest.
  2. Practical knowledge designing and implementing REST APIs.
  3. Practical knowledge designing and interacting with databases such as Postgres and Redis.
  4. Mastery using source control software such as Git.
  5. Experience creating unit tests using Nose or Pytest.
  6. Constant curiosity and wiliness to learn new technologies.
  7. Practical knowledge using infrastructure tools such as Docker, Docker-compose, Nginx and the AWS suite (EC2, ECR, ECS, Lambda, etc.).

πŸ’― Bonus points

You will stand out if you:

  1. Experience designing and implementing APIs using GraphQL for Django.
  2. You have experience working with other Python web frameworks such as Flask or Fast API.
  3. Exposure to agile methodologies.
  4. Experience implementing automated pipelines for CI/CD.
  5. Experience implementing asynchronous tasks using Celery or AWS Lambda.
  6. Knowledge and proficiency in other programming languages such as Go or Javascript. Being a polyglot is a blessing.

Also: sadly, the tech industry has a lot of biases and prejudices. If you have had to overcome any kind of bias (gender, sexual, racial, nationality, class) in order to forge a career as a dev, we WANT to meet you.

❀️ Our offer to you

We are working to change the future of education in our region in a team of smart people in a no-bullshit, respectful, honest, and extremely agile environment.

In addition to that:

  • Informal working environment and dress code
  • Day off on your birthday
  • Competitive salaries
  • Be part of the startup that will change education in LATAM

Location:

  • LatAm Remote: We're open to this role being fully remote. We're committed to making Cometa a wonderful place for all employees, regardless of if they're working from their home or an office. We do want our teams co-locating at least once a year to help build a strong starting team.
  • Mexico City: We are opening a beautiful office in CDMX. We're open to employees working full time from this office or with a balance of work from home and in the office.

Relocation offered If you are moving in from another country, Cometa helps you with your relocation.
Fully remote You can work from anywhere in the world.
Flexible hours Flexible schedule and freedom for attending family needs or personal errands.
Informal dress code No dress code is enforced.
Vacation over legal Cometa gives you paid vacations over the legal minimum.

Remote work policy

Fully remote

Candidates can reside anywhere in the world.

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