Software Engineer IV (Python/React)

At Mitratech, we are a team of technocrats focused on building world-class products that simplify operations in the Legal, Risk, Compliance, and HR functions. We are a close-knit, globally dispersed team that thrives in an ecosystem that supports individual excellence and takes pride in its diverse and inclusive work culture centered around great people practices, learning opportunities, and having fun! Our culture is the ideal blend of entrepreneurial spirit and enterprise investment, enabling the chance to move at a rapid pace with some of the most complex, leading-edge technologies available.

For over 35 years, the experts at Mitratech have been focused on solving the complex needs. Today, we serve 20,000 client companies of all sizes globally, representing 30% of the Fortune 500 and over 500,000 users in over 160 countries.

As we continue to grow, we’re always looking for resourceful, enthusiastic, and fresh perspectives. Join our global team and see what makes Mitratech a truly exceptional place to work!

Job Overview:

 You’ll be joining our Mitratech HQ team, working on an applicant tracking system to help streamline the hiring process for our customers.  We focus on delivering high quality (low escaped defects), well tested (Cypress automation framework with focus on unit test coverage), secure (scanned and verified), scalable (AWS, but hardware isn’t the answer), software that delivers exceptional experiences for our clients.  This is a great opportunity to join a growing company, be part of an excellent team, architect solutions to complex problems, and deliver valuable features where clean code matters.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Build subject matter expertise on your team’s code base and platform.
• Write clean, production-ready code that is easily understood and well tested.
• Do no harm and leave it better than you found it when refactoring components.
• Serve in an on-call rotation (DevOps philosophy where you will participate in ops) and respond promptly to any production issues to remediate rapidly.
• Be a teammate, communicate well, show up when expected, and be available.
• Write secure code. Avoid introducing an OWASP vulnerability. Know how APIs are secured, sessions are handled, and data is validated properly.
• Work in an agile development model and participate, or even lead, sprint planning activities to break down epics, estimate accurately and consistently.
• Participate in team meetings in the evening time to coordinate with team members in India.
• Look for and surface dependencies that can create technical challenges, bottlenecks, or otherwise inhibit deliveries.
• Build reliable observability; monitor and log alerts to ensure the team is aware of, and can respond to, quality issues or outages.
• Help other teammates resolve complex problems or think through design/architecture challenges. Be available and responsive.
• Foster an excellent engineering culture based in trust, accountability, character, and honesty.
• Seek feedback and deliver constructive criticism (e.g., code reviews) in a tactful and empathetic manner; build others up and mentor without ego.
• Be proactive in moving to new cards/stories and contributing to the team’s forward momentum.
• Participate and hold code reviews to ensure high quality deliveries.
• Remediate security risks found via penetration tests and scans.

Your Qualifications:

• Possess a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience. Emphasis in engineering, data science, computer science or information systems is preferred.
• Have a minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience developing SaaS applications.
• Relevant experience of developing web applications using either - Python, Ruby, Java, Nodejs, etc.
• Familiarity with common frameworks and stacks - Django, Rails, React, Nextjs, etc.
• Knowledge of deploying web applications in production environment
• Basic knowledge of containerization of web applications, eg: using Docker
• Familiarity with relational databases - PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Proficiency with Django and Python a must.  Experience with React.js, Redux, webpack is a plus.
• Must have proficiency with AWS systems (RDS, EC2, S3, Security Groups, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of Git source control, versioning/branching, rebasing, etc.
• Proficiency with code coverage and unit testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, secure sessions, identity and access management providers (OAuth, SAML, etc.)
• Advanced experience with database queries, SQL, optimization and tuning (MySQL, Postgres etc.)
• Knowledge of caching systems (Redis, Memcache, Elasticache).
• Familiar with queueing systems (SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, etc.)

Our Technology Stack:

• Python: Django, uWSGI, Celery
• Javascript: React
• MySQL
• Puppet
• AWS
• Cypress 

We are an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.