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Lead Back-end Python Engineer

Settlesweet is hiring!

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About Us

  • Settlesweet: We’re building a powerful, exhaustive and user friendly home search platform
  • History: The project started 2 years ago and we have our V1 fully operational. We have clients among the top french startups (Doctolib, Meero, Qonto, Spendesk, etc.) and we are growing fast
  • We think big: Our goal is to deploy a worldwide solution to the home search problem
  • We are doers: non technical founders who managed to process all the steps of the home search to make it as efficient as it can be
  • Location: We are located at Station F, the world largest incubator at the center of the french startup ecosystem.

Now we need you to be able to scale even further, by coding the end-user part of our web application and make it interact in a smooth way with our current technology.
This will help bring our tech available to everyone to solve the pain of home search on a larger scale.

Job Description

Mission

As Lead Backend Engineer, your mission will be to improve HomeMatchers efficiency & customers experience with a state of the art web application.
You will ensure a high standard of coding, following best practices and continuous integration processes.

What you will do

  • Deploy to production our end-user platform powered by our Home Search API (shipped by Q2 2020)
  • Implement a scoring algorithm to automate home matching
  • Define & implement, in partnership with operations team, features that will help scale operation processes
  • Maintain a highly-scalable and resilient infrastructure
  • Improve and maintain our Home Search API by improving data quality (data deduplication, NLU, Geoparsing)

Preferred Experience

Competencies

Essentials:

  • Technical Skill: Fluency in Python & Django is a must. Knowledge of another language is a +. You have solid knowledge in software engineering and backend applications

Important:

  • Communication: Able to explain and popularize the technical issues & decisions
  • Work Experience: You already have 2+ years of experience as an engineer, preferably in a startup environment
  • Technical agnosticism: Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism

Bonus:

  • Entrepreneurial spirit: you already built something from scratch
  • Real estate enthusiast: You are excited about disrupting a non-digitalized market and are interested about the real estate market
  • Interested about data science

We are looking for a fit with our values

  • Always customer first: You have a sense for the UX of the product and you think about the user first
  • Be humble & curious: An excellent and humble engineer who is willing to grow
  • Get things done: You have the get things done mindset. For you, done is better than perfect
  • Go the extra mile: You pay attention to the small details that make the difference
  • Be bold: You are autonomous, proactive and attracted to solving complex tech problems

Recruitment Process

Perks

  • Entrepreneurial adventure by working inside a fast growing startup & with an ambitious founding team
  • Working on a real-world problem that everyone has already faced
  • Opportunity to grow with frequent exchanges with a very experienced & talented tech mentor (15+ year experience, developed widely used python packages, speaker at leading industry conferences)
  • Cool office located at Station F & many perks associated (sports, food, professional education opportunities)
  • Remote friendly environment & flexible work hours
  • We provide you with any book you'd like to read

Settlesweet technical stack

  • Backend: Python (3.6) / Django, Django REST Framework, JavaScript
  • Frontend: Vue.js
  • Servers: Continuous integration and deployment on AWS, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Others: RabbitMQ, Selenium

Package

Fix salary : 50-60k€

Equity: 1-3%

Process

  • Phone screening
  • Take home assignment
  • Resume interview
  • Technical interview
  • Product interview
  • Reference check

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Start Date: 01 April 2020
  • Location: Paris, France (75013)
  • Experience: > 2 years
  • Occasional remote authorized
  • Salary: between 50€ and 60€ / year
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