Isobar is a creative experience agency that is focused  on digital innovation and design, with an expertise in emerging technologies.    Isobar has global offices in 51 markets with over 8,000 employees working every day to create engaging, interesting, valuable and meaningful experiences. As part of dentsu, a global network that has capabilities across data, marketing, advertising and experience, Isobar leads the way in terms of innovation and design services and operates under the principles of “Invent – Make – Change” – the way we approach the work that we do and what we find most rewarding and meaningful as we work with our clients, across an extensive client roster across verticals. 

Diversity is embedded in who we are and all that we do: our mindset, our solutions, and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable environment. We put our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. Our differences make us richer and enable stronger relationships with each other and foster greater impact for our clients. We engage with our communities to drive positive social impact by fostering equity and working to create a digital society that works for all.

We are looking for an analytical, but flexible, Lead Back-End Developer who will work with team members to troubleshoot and improve current back-end applications and processes. The back-end developer will use his or her understanding and tools to analyze current code and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, and solve problems. You should have excellent communication, computer, and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Leading a small, remote team of senior developers to build our backend chat application infrastructure from the ground up.
• Work with remote mobile team to design and implement new chat features.
• Help establish a culture of engineering discipline amongst the broader backend engineering team

Requirements

• 5+ years Python Experience
• Experience with Asyncio or similar apis
• Network Service Development
• Distributed Systems Development
• Pub Sub System
• Steam processing
• Websockets
• AWS Persistence Services
• Encryption
• Linux/POSIX Operation Systems Permitive
• SQL & MySQL in a clustered environment
• PHP 7, Python 3, or Ruby
• Docker
• AWS Core Services (EC2, SNS, SES, S3)
• Basic knowledge of Laravel framework or 1 or more of the well-known Python web frameworks
• Basic experience in building RESTful APIs

Desirable Experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work remotely and communicate asynchronously
• Experience using performance analysis and debugging tools
• Providing mentorship to other engineers
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or the equivalent hands-on experience
• Experience with gathering and documenting technical requirements and specifications
• Experience with Google Calendar API, Outlook Calendar API, and dealing with date-time/timezone issues in software
• Caching technologies like Redis & Memcached
• Experience with ElasticSearch
• Experiencing reviewing technical specifications and architectural plans with the ability to make trade-offs and compromise to meet business objectives and product goals

Ideal Candidates will also have

• Ability to mentor other developers and provide technical direction on application architecture
• Experience working in an Agile and SCRUM environment
• Strong problem-solving capabilities

Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply.
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