Python Engineer - Temporary - Shopkick

This position is fully remote and available for applicants living in countries in Central America and Mexico, including Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

**Please submit your resume in English.**

Shopkick: The smarter way to shop.
Millions of shopping trips start with Shopkick every month. Shopkick is a leading shopping and rewards platform in the US, helping everyday shoppers make smarter shopping decisions and to earn cashback rewards from their
favorite brands and local retail stores.
If you are passionate about building new products that help people in their everyday lives and growing our business, come and join our growing Shopkick team!

If this excites you, please read on...

JOB OVERVIEW
We are looking for a passionate and curious Python Engineer with proven analytical and technical skills, to help us rebuild our backend infrastructure using modern best practices. You will ship a quality product with features that customers love and improve the way we work.

What you will bring:

• Your energy, passion, and creativity to build best-in-class consumer experiences.
• Customer Obsession – you are a passionate advocate for the customer. You stay close to customer problems and solve them with urgency.
• Speed as a Habit - can operate in a fast-moving environment, make quick data-driven, customer centric decisions, and execute fiercely to deliver outcomes.
• You think long-term and build the road to get there, by launching high-quality features and products that customers need.
• Boundaryless Collaboration as you will be working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders including senior leaders across continents and time zones.
• You communicate, respectfully and effectively verbally and in writing with engineers, designers, customers, and stakeholders.
• Your knowledge and experience with the product development process in agile environment.
• You are comfortable with the ambiguity, know how to set the course, and lead the team by example.
• Solid understanding of scalability and performance optimization in distributed processing systems focused on multi-tiered caching.

How you will contribute:

• Design, develop and support APIs, microservices, and backend services that power mobile apps used by millions of users and process hundreds of millions of events each day
• Continuously improve the Shopkick platform by devising new approaches to solve problems, refactoring, and optimizing services.
• Handle merge requests and code reviews, enforcing standards and best practices.
• Participate in Agile process (sprint planning, estimation, retrospectives, daily scrum).
• Improve our resilience, scalability, performance and quality.

Requirements and skills:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience as a Python Engineer designing high-scale consumer-facing services.
• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or other Python application frameworks such as Pylons.
• Proficiency in database frameworks such as SQLAlchemy and working with both relational and NoSQL database systems.
• Experience with Java backend development and Javascript frontend development is an advantage.
• Analytical skills for evaluating information carefully and solving complex problems.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to catch minor errors that can result in major problems.
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure is an advantage.

WHO WE ARE?
Alia Services is one of the renowned recruitment and payroll services companies that operate remotely. We offer one-window solutions for entrepreneurs, small-medium enterprises, companies, corporates, and candidates. With us, a company can shape its organizational goals and objectives into reality by acquiring exceptional human capital with an easy and fast paced recruitment process.

WHAT DO WE PROVIDE?

• Full time positions with the potential for overtime.
• 100% remote positions.
• Competitive compensation package.
• An inclusive, fast pace exciting environment culture offering accelerated professional growth.
• 1-on-1 coaching with feedback sessions, mentorships, and leadership development programs.
• Opportunities for cross-functional development. 

HOW ARE WE DIFFERENT?
Historically, outsourcing companies have valued profit over people and compensated for high turnover by underpaying employees. We want to change that. Alia Services not only offers fair compensation and benefits but values inclusion, belonging, and opportunity. 
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are more than a commitment for Alia Services it is the foundation of what we do. Through diverse networks and pipelines, we have a clear vision: to create a Great Place to Work for All. We believe inclusion includes you. Be who you are at Alia Services!
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Differently Abled