Software Engineer, API Services
About Shiftgig:
Shiftgig connects businesses with the on-demand workforce through our industry-leading mobile platform. Our technology provides financial opportunity for hourly workers seeking flexibility and choice while delivering powerful business agility to companies. More than 2,500 clients in food service, hospitality, retail, warehouse and experiential marketing use Shiftgig because of its ability to easily fill and manage short-term job assignments with pre-vetted, skills-assessed workers. Shiftgig is changing the way people work.
A qualified candidate will have:
3+ years of experience building and operating APIs, SOAs, or microservices with 2+ years of production Python
Experience defining and documenting standards and practices for writing maintainable, secure services
Experience creating REST (or REST-like) interfaces
Experience with AWS services in production environments
Experience creating publicly-available APIs, or working with customers or partners to leverage private APIs
Software architecture experience, from service decomposition to queueing and communication techniques, to caching and performance
Excellent communication skills, able to talk to engineers and stakeholders alike
Good-to-have experience:
Familiarity with the concepts of domain-driven design
Experience writing AWS Lambdas, and/or using Serverless to create Lambdas
PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy
Celery or another distributed task queue
Messaging queues (like RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS)
5+ years with Python as your primary programming language
Substantial experience with non-Python languages and/or other types of systems (mobile or javascript apps, desktop apps, etc.)
Experience working in an agile environment, developing MVPs and successfully iterating with evolutionary architectures
Experience recruiting
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or some other infrastructure automation tool
Experience with GraphQL
Shiftgig Perks:
Medical/Rx – Enroll or waive coverage, three plan options with defined employer contributions
HRA – Health Reimbursement Account
HSA – set up a Health Savings Account
90% Dental Coverage
100% Vision Care Coverage
Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
Parking and Transportation Spending Account
Voluntary Life Insurance
Short-Term Disability Insurance
Voluntary Long-Term Disability Insurance
Pet Insurance
Virtual Visits via HealthiestYou
Identity Theft Protection
401(K) Retirement Plan
Shiftgig is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.