Movable Ink scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning. The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflow and boost marketing agility. Headquartered in New York City with close to 600 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

As a Lead Backend Developer (Python), you will play an instrumental role in advancing the services and systems comprising the DaVinci platform on the Core Integrations team. Your technical expertise and leadership skills will be leveraged to drive the development and deployment of high quality, scalable solutions. The fast pace of research and product releases in this field means that there is always something new and exciting to work on, which keeps the role engaging and challenging. By combining digital marketing and AI, you have the potential to make a significant impact on the way businesses interact with their customers.

The role will be reporting to the Manager of the DaVinci Core Integrations team.

Responsibilities:

Work with other team leads to create, implement, and maintain integration solutions that facilitate seamless connections between our product and third-party marketing technology platforms
Design and build our next generation integration platform for email service provider integrations.
Help build a turnkey integration architecture that will minimize onboarding of new clients and increase the market availability of our main web application services.

Qualifications:

7+ years software engineering experience
Strong proficiency with Python (our core integrations and tooling are written in Python)
Experience architecting, building, and maintaining distributed systems at scale that are fault tolerant and highly concurrent, as well as experience with debugging, tuning, monitoring large distributed systems.
Exemplary software engineering skills (design, unit testing, git, code review, CI/CD)
Experience with or a strong desire to learn a functional programming language (we use Elixir)
A strong understanding of web based API architectures (RESTful, GraphQL, Async) and technologies (gRPC, SOAP, OAuth, TLS)
In-depth experience with a cloud provider e.g AWS, Azure, or GCP (We use Google Cloud Platform)
Experience with modern distributed workload and micro service technologies (we use Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc)
Proficient in database management and technologies, including designing database schemas, crafting efficient queries, and working with both OLTP/RDBMS and OLAP database systems.
Experience with the full breadth of the Software Development Lifecycle, such as continuous integration/continuous delivery and automated deployment (we use tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Github Actions, etc.)
Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to collaborate with others, communicate effectively, and mentor more junior engineers.
Exceptional problem-solving skills, including the ability to efficiently identify, analyze, and resolve complex issues, and communicate to others on the team how to contribute to the solutions for these issues.
A willingness and eagerness to continuously learn, adapt to evolving technologies, and strive for personal and professional improvement
You autonomously deliver on major team objectives, often requiring cross-team dependencies
You set ambitious goals, take reasonable risks, and share learnings with others modeling a high standard of excellence

Studies have shown that women, communities of color, and historically underrepresented people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture where all Inkers can thrive. If you’re excited about the role but don’t meet all of the abovementioned qualifications, we encourage you to apply. Our differences bring a breadth of knowledge and perspectives that makes us collectively stronger.

We welcome and employ people regardless of race, color, gender identity or expression, religion, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ethnicity, family or marital status, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, disability, Veteran status, or other protected characteristics. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Lead Backend Developer

Python, Core Integrations

Movable Ink

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