Principal Backend Software Engineer

Are you excited to shape the future of responsible AI? Then we want you to join our team.Monitaur is the premier model governance software that helps highly regulated enterprises build better AI and models that businesses, regulators, and consumers can trust. The company delivers solutions that help enterprises and their partners define, manage, and automate fundamental best practices throughout the modeling project lifecycle. With Monitaur, companies can accelerate innovation with clarity and confidence in the transparency, fairness, safety, and compliance of their modeling systems.Your role on the teamAs a principal software engineer, you'll be architecting and implementing critical elements of Monitaur's products for enabling AI Governance. You will work closely with the Director of Engineering and Product to design and implement the next generation of AI Governance features on our platform, which leverages the Django framework and is hosted on AWS. Upcoming projects include: scaling from 10's of millions of transactions per customer to billions; improving data flow between services; integrating cutting edge Data Science techniques to evaluate our customer's models (and working closely with our front-end team to provide them with the APIs to visualize these models); maintaining application security, and much more!ResponsibilitiesLead architectural design with robust scalability in mindLead the delivery of architectural changes and major project initiativesDeliver product features large and smallInterface with leads in front-end, data engineering, product and other groupsCollaborate closely with Data Engineering and Infrastructure to ensure scalability needs are met now and in the futureWrite tests and contribute to ongoing automation infrastructure developmentTake ownership of our APIsCollaborate with teams globally across multiple time zones and operate in an agile development environmentEstablish and maintain code standardsMentor fellow developersMust haves12 years of professional software development experience7 years of professional Python experience3 years experience leveraging a data warehouse like Redshift or Snowflake as your primary data store for a web application2 years of experience with DjangoProficient in Relational Databases and query optimization (Postgres preferred)Experience with NoSQLExpertise developing RESTful backend services with Python, Django, Django REST Framework, and DockerExpertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)Experience writing unit and integration tests with pytestExperience with Celery (or other task or message queue system)You always leave code better than you found itAbility to work autonomously, wear multiple hats, understand trade-offsYou are currently authorized to work in the USNice to havesExpertise with DjangoExperience processing large volumes of data using Apache SparkExperience with Docker orchestration tools like ECS and KubernetesExperience with AWSExperience with full-cycle development, going from inception to delivery, using Docker and AWSFamiliarity with Data ScienceStartup experienceBachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related fieldWhat you getCompetitive payEquityFully remote100% individual paid healthcare (75% family)Flexible PTOAn environment that fosters teamwork, growth and creativityThe opportunity to help shape the future of Website #J-18808-Ljbffr