[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Prometric

Role Description

As a Backend Engineer, you build the foundation and core functionality surfaced to B2B customers with our SaaS platform. You fuse traditional Software Engineering techniques with a wealth of AI capabilities to fundamentally change the way customers perform work. Your primary focus will be on building robust services for AI-powered systems. This role provides an exciting and rare opportunity for those looking to be a part of the evolving AI journey while solving real-world problems.

• Design and implement back-end REST services using Python, Django and other relevant technologies
• Make decisions on database schemas, communication protocols, and other transactional logic
• Deliver high-quality code following best practices & coding standards, including clean code, unit tests, and CI-CD
• Collaborate with stakeholders & frontend engineers on the requirements, functionality and traits of services
• Take ownership and lead projects to deliver new features and functionality
• Create Proofs-of-Concept and perform R&D to explore and discover novel solutions
• Design cloud solutions composed of both infrastructure and services
• Collaborate with Tech Lead & ML Engineers to integrate AI technologies to solve business problems
• Work in an agile environment, employing an experimental approach to adapt to the evolving needs of a growing startup
• Provide troubleshooting and bug-fixing support to ensure the smooth operation of our software solutions

Qualifications

• At least 10 years experience in a Software Engineer role or similar position, with a strong emphasis on full-stack web development
• Deep experience in Python software engineering, able to meet modern best practices and mentor other engineers
• At least 5 years experience with one or more Python services frameworks such as Django, Flask or FastAPI
• Demonstrated experience building line-of-business applications or customer facing products, preferably with experience developing B2B SaaS applications
• System design and solution engineering experience, able to wield both infrastructure and application logic to solve business problems
• Knowledge of modern cloud deployments on AWS utilizing resources such as S3, ECS/EKS, RDS and lambdas to compose solutions
• Familiarity with basic DevOps practices (Github Actions, Infrastructure-as-code, etc)
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, with the ability to identify, triage and address errors, bugs, and technical limitations
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
• A track record of learning new techniques & technology, staying up-to-date with industry trends, and learning new tools and growing your skills
• Experience integrating AI technologies into applications is desirable but optional

Company Description

Prometric is a leading provider of technology-enabled testing and assessment solutions to many of the world’s most recognized licensing and certification organizations, academic institutions, and government agencies. We support more than 7 million test takers annually at our testing locations in 180 countries around the world. With over three decades of experience working with clients of all sizes across a multitude of industry sectors, our mission is to design and deliver the highest quality and most innovative testing solutions anytime, anywhere.