We promise you’re going to love this job and the work that you do.
VAMONDE connects attractions and cultural organizations with hotels and travel brands through experiential content and events. Our proprietary creation tool allows museums and cultural institutions to tell their stories by digitally repackaging their content. Our white-label technology helps hotels and travel brands curate this content to provide some of the best hyperlocal information to their guests. We are the middlemen/women that help bring great stories to travelers so that they can live great stories.
If you have a passion for travel and culture and love to nerd out over best practices, this is the place for you. You will be joining a group that prides itself on having a collaborative workplace where everyone gets a say and a chance to be creative. You’ll be a part of exciting debates, ideation, and brainstorming meetings and then battle it out over some intense ping pong matches. The office also comes with free drinks and snacks...and who doesn’t like free drinks and snacks?
Sound like the right place for you?
Why VAMONDE
Our workplace culture is one of camaraderie, collaboration, and transparency. We expect and encourage team members to own their parts of the business and guarantee a high-impact role in our team. In addition to a full pay package, we offer a flexible work environment and lots of opportunity for growth. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
Explore the content: https://www.vamonde.com/
Explore the software: https://solutions.vamonde.com/
About You!!
The ideal candidate is someone who’s confident in their skills with Python and Django and can quickly jump into a codebase and make meaningful updates. You’ve modeled out and implemented complex data structures and are able to explain them to non-technical team members. If you also have experience with AWS and enjoy DevOps, you might be the perfect fit for our team.
This is an onsite, full-time position at our offices in Fulton Market in Chicago.
The Role
- Spearheading technical efforts and plan of attack for our API
- Maintain various services used for sourcing and supplementing data
- Ensure security and industry standards are applied across our back end
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Maintain robust data modeling to enable data-driven decisions
- Create and maintain technical documentation
Required Skills And Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent degree) in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- 4-7 years of experience programming in a modern object-oriented programming language (Python, Ruby On Rails, or GO).
- Solid understanding of Django and PostgreSQL
- Startup mentality: self-starter, proactive, flexible
Why you will love working here
Our workplace culture is grounded in collaboration, flexibility, and transparency. In addition to a full pay package, we offer a flexible work environment and lots of opportunity for growth. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
Candidates must be based in Chicago or willing to relocate.
No recruiters please.
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Skills
Python, Django, Docker, AWS
Compensation
$90K – $125K