About Us:

Shiftgig is the premier online community for the service industry. We are changing the way people find work. With over 1,200,000 registered members and 22,000 businesses, Shiftgig has become the largest online destination for the restaurant, nightlife, hotel and retail industries. Our Mission is to connect millions of workers with millions of shifts.

We are a tech company in a non-tech space and as such, we have a lot of interesting problems to solve. Our architecture is centered around internal and external APIs with consuming clients being our single page applications and native mobile apps..

About You:

• You have significant experience building Python applications.
• You enjoy creating solid, clean code so you won’t hate yourself next time you have to visit it.
• Have a love of software development and making neat things to help people in their daily lives. The social aspect of our business is very important to our team.
• You’ve worked in collaborative multifunctional teams to get the job done.
• Know how to balance pragmatic, iterative development with the long term vision of a scalable and usable product.

Experience Required:

• 4+ years of Python as your primary programming language

• Creating RESTful APIs

• Debugging Python

• Taking ownership over parts of an application and collaborating on global issues

• Experience with relational and non-relational data stores

• Linux/UNIX as your server OS

Bonus Skills:

• Significant experience with Postgres

• Flask framework experience

• Experience working in GO or a desire to do so

• Algorithm performance optimization

• SQLAlchemy as your ORM

• Unit testing (we don’t  do TDD, but we like coverage - a lot)

• Enjoy Agile software development