Senior Platform Engineer (Python)
Acquird.io, Toronto - Hybrid
What you will do
- New API Design: Working on making the platform more scalable and data performant.
- Complex Integrations work: Working with heavy hitters like Meta, Tik Tok, Snapchat on the ad tech side.
- Lead Async task management: We're using Celery, we'd like you to take this over and optimize how we do concurrency, distributed tasks, resource intensive jobs.
What you need
About You
We are looking for an outstanding Senior/Staff/Lead Platform Engineer who wants to play a core role in building for our platform team. This role will be 100% back-end focused (no FE work)
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience building and scaling services in Python
- Solid understanding of datastores (ex. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis) and messaging systems (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Pub/Sub)
- Proven experience designing and maintaining high-availability, distributed backend systems (event-driven architectures, background workers, schedulers, queues - we use Azure)