Python Engineer - Contract
Location: Remote, Anywhere in United States, Canada or LATAM
Who We Are
We are an Experience design and trusted creative technology partner to some of the world’s most ambitious brands such as Google, Amazon, Meta and Uber. We believe in the power of storytelling, human-centric design, and the intersection of creativity with code to further humanity's relationship with technology. We operate fully remote, and our team members enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere within the U.S. and Canada time zones while keeping a balanced relationship with their personal life.
At Left Field Labs, our curiosity drives us to seek out uncommon solutions to our shared challenges. Our purpose is to positively impact the human experience with everything we invent. We’re looking for those who can craft unique solutions through empathy.
Interested in joining a culture that celebrates diversity, encourages curiosity, and creates with purpose? Are you the kind of person who obsesses over details, thrives in a collaborative environment, and jumps at the opportunity to take on new challenges? Confident that you’re at the top of your game and ready to invent with others who are at the top of theirs? Check out our open position and let’s talk.
Who We Are Seeking
We are seeking a Python Engineer to work with the project Tech Lead and Front End Developers to provide sensible, robust and extensible APIs and back-end architecture for a web based SASS product. You will be expected to spin up multi-tier environments leveraging a variety of storage, caching and state-driven endpoint options. The Back-end Developer will own all data modeling and controller code, as well as session management, data storage, authentication, authorization and integrations with remote systems.
What You’ll Need to be Successful
- Intermediate or better knowledge of Python with 5+ years of experience
- Intermediate or better knowledge of FastAPI and/or Flask with 3+ years of experience
- Basic working knowledge of modern Javascript/Typescript
- Experience with SQL databases (eg MySQL, PostgreSQL) through both an ORM (eg SQLAlchemy) and native SQL
- Experience working with microservices and containers
- Expertise with RPC & REST API development
- Expertise with using package managers and environment tools (pip,virtualenv, npm, yarn)
- Mac, PC and Linux savvy - Must be comfortable working at the command line
- Experience deploying applications to cloud computing services (GCP, AWS, etc.)
- Experience writing and running unit tests
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
- Other duties and ad hoc projects as assigned
Bonus Points:
- Experience creating and maintaining Docker containers
- Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
- Knowledge and interest in automation and scripting (including bash scripts)
- Experience with NoSQL databases (eg Firestore, MongoDB)
- Experience with Message Queues (Google Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, etc)
- Experience developing in a serverless cloud environment (AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, etc.)
- Prior working experience for a startup or an agency
The salary range for this role is $40-$50 per hour. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in Culver City, California. This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
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Left Field Labs is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all applicants and team members regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00). Left Field Labs makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled team members.