Lifesum

Senior Platform Engineer (Backend, Python)

Lifesum is a Stockholm-based digital health startup that offers its users a flexible platform to support and encourage a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Having already achieved over 9 million downloads across Europe, the Lifesum app is available on Android and iOS, and can be tailored by individual users and adapted to specific goals and aims, offering personal guidance based on personal data. Lifesum wants to make people healthier and happier by helping users to forge good habits on their journey towards a better lifestyle, as well as an improved overall quality of life.

We’re looking for an experienced platform engineer to help us scale the platform as we grow. You will be part of the platform team and you will be taking features from the idea stage to scalable production deployments. You will work on making highly scalable solutions, get feedback from analytics and monitoring tools and be able to refine and perfect your solution at each iteration.

Tech-wise, our server code is written in Python and running on AWS (RDS, EC2, ElastiCache, etc). You will soon get familiar with distributed computing, cloud hosting, database optimizations and search solutions. 

This role is a good fit for analytical and creative software engineers loving team work. We work closely in a scrum team and follow the motto “team work is better work”. You want to grow and learn from others, and you also want to teach and help others grow. 

Responsibilities

• Taking features from the idea stage to scalable production deployments
• Take part in improving the platform as a whole as the company grows

Requirements

• Passion. You love building scalable systems, big data problems and high performance applications.
• 5+ years software development experience 
• Demonstrated experience building, maintaining and optimizing large-scale consumer web/mobile applications.
• You have worked in a team of developers and know the benefits of tests, continuous integration, logging and monitoring
• You have experience working in Python or a similar language
• You are a team worker with excellent communication skills
• Fluent (written and verbal) in English
• It’s a plus if you have a passion for health and fitness 

As a person you continuously challenge yourself to find new ways of developing our platform. You have a burning desire to improve and you are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get the work done. 

If you think this sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you. Send us your resume right away!

Apply on the link below

http://jobs.lifesum.com/jobs/4301-senior-platform-engineer-backend-python