\nInstnt is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our team of innovators and engineers.  This role reports directly to the VP, Engineering and works closely with DevOps, Product Design, QA and Data Science.  The Lead Software Engineer is instrumental in the building and maintenance of Instnt’s product focused on the Instnt’s API and backend services.  \n\nDuties and Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Design, code, and troubleshoot new features, while debugging as necessary.\n\n* Write clean code to develop functional APIs and backend services.\n\n* Act as a mentor to fellow Engineers, review code, sharing knowledge and contributing to the team’s continued growth and improvement.\n\n* Working closely with other engineering teams, Data Scientists, Customer success teams and vendors to resolve engineering issues on a timely manner\n\n* Keep current with technology and developments within the financial technology space.\n\n\n\n\nTechnical Skills Required:\n\n\n* Agile SDLC\n\n* Python\n\n* Django\n\n* SQL\n\n* AWS serverless stack - API gateway, lambda, cloudwatch, Cloudformation\n\n* Deep understanding of Serverless architecture (AWS Lambda)\n\n* Container orchestration, docker, kubernetes, AWS ECS, EKS and Fargate\n\n* Clear grasp and implementation knowledge of software qualities like security, simplicity, maintainability, traceability, extensibility, scalability, availability\n\n* Authentication and authorization\n\n* Sound understand of CI/CD process, Python Django dependency management using Poetry\n\n* Good experience in logging and debugging production APIs/services using Python., log management, log analytics\n\n* Good experience in microservices and event driven architecture\n\n* Understanding and experience in api performance tuning, linting, profiling\n\n* Experience in TDD, writing unit tests and functional review of the QA test cases\n\n\n\n\nTechnical Skills Nice to Have: \n\n\n* Knowledge on blockchain, Self sovereign identity / decentralized Identity, Hyperledger Aries\n\n\n\n\nThe Ideal Candidate will possess:\n\n\n* Minimum of 6 year’s experience in a related position\n\n* Ability to create architecture/design specifications from requirement\n\n* Ability to define agile stories, breaking down the high-level product features\n\n* Proven work experience as a Backend Developer\n\n* Excellent analytical and time management skills\n\n* Experience working in a start-up organization is preferred but not required\n\n* Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude\n\n\n\n\nInstnt values our employees and wants you to be healthy and happy! As an employee, you will enjoy a wide range of benefits and perks including:\n\n\n* Culture that values empathy, kindness, teamwork, humor, and direct honesty\n\n* Generous Equity Package\n\n* Full Remote\n\n* Unlimited PTO\n\n* Competitive company paid Maternity / Paternity Leave Policy\n\n* Comprehensive Healthcare plan (medical, dental, & vision)\n\n* Supplemental Ancillary Benefits\n\n* Employee Events\n\n\n\n\nSalary: $140k+ (Salary depends upon several factors, including the applicant’s prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location)\n\nNO PHONE CALLS PLEASE\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. M/F/H/V \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Django, API, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York City, New York, United States

\nAbout Betterworks\n\nBetterworks provides enterprise software to easily manage strategic plans, collaborative goals (OKRs), and ongoing performance conversations.  Betterworks software helps high-performing companies get aligned, and execute more effectively. \n\nBetterworks' mission is to build solutions that help companies execute their strategic objectives through people engagement, performance enablement and decision analytics. We are working with some of the world’s leading brands like Walmart and Intuit to disrupt the business and talent management spaces with next-generation Strategic Execution and Performance Management solutions. \n\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer at Betterworks, you will be responsible for developing an enterprise-class continuous performance management system. You will,\n\n\n* Build a complex talent management application that will drive decision-making at scale in large enterprises.\n\n* Implement an architecture that will scale as the product grows.\n\n* Build a complex application that will drive decision making at scale in large enterprises\n\n* Develop clean, efficient, and maintainable code using best practices\n\n* Collaborate with product managers, designers, qa and other stakeholders to translate requirements into technical specifications\n\n* Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members\n\n* Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards\n\n* Troubleshoot and debug issues to ensure optimal performance and reliability\n\n* Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends in software development\n\n\n\n\nWhat’ll Help You Be Successful\n\n\n\n* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\n\n* 5+ years of experience in Software Development.\n\n* A strong full stack developer experience with Django , nodejs\n\n* Good understanding of Web Application and Backend development technologies\n\n* Strong understanding and working experience in REST APIs\n\n* Working experience with Postgres or similar relational database\n\n* Strong engineering practices - pair programming, test-driven development, jest, git-flow\n\n* Working experience of AWS lambdas is a plus\n\n* Integration experience is a plus\n\n* Solid understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices\n\n* Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills\n\n* Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment\n\n* Strong communication and collaboration skills\n\n* Experience with Scrum methodologies and remote teams is a plus\n\n\n\n\nWhat We All Do\n\n\n* All employees share the responsibility of being aware of information security risks and adhering to information security policies and procedures. \n\n* All employees are required to participate in information security awareness and training programs. \n\n* All employees have a responsibility to handle data in accordance with data classification and handling guidelines. Employees should be aware of the sensitivity of the data they interact with and follow appropriate security measures. \n\n* All employees have a responsibility of reporting information security incidents in accordance with information security policies and procedures. \n\n\n\n\nLife at Betterworks\n\nAt Betterworks, we prioritize our people. In that spirit, we’ve put together a great benefits program to support our employees’ health and wellness that includes the following:\n\n\n* Work closely with a cross functional team of highly motivated and intelligent folks with a unique range of startup and enterprise experience.\n\n* Balanced Work / Life with unlimited vacation.\n\n* Vibrant company culture with frequent team building events.\n\n* Competitive salary with stock options.\n\n* Company sponsored health and personal accident insurance benefits.\n\n* Remote first work culture that allows you to work from anywhere in India and travel to meet as a team when possible.\n\n* A one-time reimbursement for work from home office set up.\n\n* A monthly stipend for internet.\n\n\n\n\nAbout Betterworks\n\nBetterworks® aligns, develops and activates your workforce for business growth. Through our easy-to-use, integrated software solutions and expertise, we help organizations replace outdated annual review processes with powerful Continuous Performance Management® programs that help managers be better at the conversations, coaching and development necessary to inspire and motivate the entire workforce to meet today's goals and be ready for tomorrow's challenges. Our solution supports truly global workforces, and is used daily by workers from more than 100 countries with localization support in more than 20 languages.\n\nFollow Betterworks on Twitter or connect with us on LinkedIn\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to inclusive and diverse betterworks. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global betterworks Community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Django, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

About the Role:\n\nAccu-Trade (www.accu-trade.com) a new addition to the Cars family, creates SaaS software that makes it easy for consumers get a guaranteed price when selling their used vehicle, and gives dealers tools to understand the used vehicle market, make the right decision when purchasing vehicles from consumer or other dealers, and gives dealers clear insights into how to best monetize their inventory. Our products are used by thousands of consumers and dealers daily.\n\nWe are looking for a knowledgeable, experienced all around Python Django DRF superstar to help build out and maintain API for our suite of web apps. We have a robust set of dealer and consumer facing automotive applications, and while our core PHP API is mature, we are always adding new features and functionality. The ideal candidate would have deep experience in both Django and MySQL, and have experience working with front-end developers to produce API output that works well with modern Angular frontends.\n\nWe use modern tools to improve our productivity and are always looking to include innovative new approaches to our process. We run on Angular/Django/DRF and AWS. We've been remote since our inception and have a great culture built around online communication and collaboration.\n\nWe are looking for someone with experience including:\n\n\n* 5+ Django framework / DRF, ideally with REST framework development\n\n* 5+ MySQL and PostgresSQL \n\n* Comfort building new application features as well as maintaining and refactoring existing code\n\n* Sr. level MySQL and PostgresSQL experience, with skills around SQL optimization\n\n* Experience working in a CI/CD environment \n\n* Experience working in a fully remote environment with an agile team\n\n* Ability to work with QA to quickly identify and resolve tough to troubleshoot issues\n\n* Experience with swagger or other documentation tools\n\n* Ability to write clearly and concisely and document processes and code\n\n* Automated test experience \n\n\n\n\nBonus:\n\n\nAutomotive industry experience is a nice plus!\n\n\n\n\nNote: This is a full time W2 position. US eligible workers only. \n\n \n\n#LI-KO1 #LI-Remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Architect, SaaS, InfoSec, Cloud, Engineer, Software, Python, Senior, Stats, HR, Finance, Web, Teaching, Video, Education, Accounting, PHP, Angular, API and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nChicago, Illinois, United States