Your Responsibilities:

• Develop clean, modular, and reusable code that other engineers and organizations can easily understand and implement.
• Create detailed documentation that simplifies complex architectures and software concepts.
• Communicate ideas and technical concepts clearly, facilitating learning and knowledge sharing among peers.

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of professional experience working with Django, including the development of enterprise-grade applications.
• Experience optimizing application performance across backend models, databases, and migrations.
• Demonstrated leadership in developing and scaling full-stack applications.
• Proficiency with modern infrastructure technologies such as AWS, Docker, and containerization.
• Strong understanding of authentication protocols like OAuth 2.0 and SAML, along with experience in server-to-server integrations.
• Extensive experience working with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on expertise with test automation frameworks, including pytest.

Expertise:

• Strong command of Git/GitHub, npm, pipenv, and related development tools.
• Experience in integrating third-party platforms and developing custom API endpoints.
• Familiarity with open-source platforms such as Open edX.

Preferred Skills:

• Excellent communication skills with a passion for engaging with a global community through pull requests, events, forums, and working groups.
• Creates clear, concise, and well-structured documentation, including pull request descriptions, GitHub issues, and official documentation.
• Independently tackles business challenges, guiding solutions from technical discovery through community consensus, development, merging, and eventual adoption.
• Makes thoughtful and well-reasoned design decisions, carefully weighing tradeoffs and priorities while incorporating community feedback into the decision-making process.
• Actively fosters a welcoming and inclusive environment by reflecting on community interactions and adapting behaviors accordingly.
• Can provide mentorship with team members and others.