Kirkus Media Hiring for Python/Django Developer Job at Remote Full Time

Kirkus Media is currently searching for a full-stack Python/Django developer ready to bring their skills to our team. The new developer will be responsible for building, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting clean, web standards compliant code, Python/Django development and collaboration with backend developers to integrate this into final product. They will also be responsible for maintaining, building upon, and updating our existing code base as well. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working independently, within a small, cross-disciplinary team.

This position will require daily collaboration with other developers and weekly meetings with the dev and tech team. Kirkus offers tremendous flexibility, rock-solid benefits, delightful perks, and a culture that is supportive, exciting, and fun!

This is a full-time remote position. Benefits include health, dental, vision, 401k, PTO, and more. EOE

Job Responsibilities

• Plan, architect, integrate, and develop back-end and database driven features using the Python language and Django framework.
• Develop code that is cross-browser and cross-platform friendly
• Support ongoing development for existing projects. Efforts here may include simple updates to marketing landing pages or diving deep into our scripts that augment our book editing business to develop new features.
• Support and maintain a complex set of scheduled tasks that power our business.
• Write clean, efficient code with corresponding tests.
• Fix bugs and resolve ongoing issues.
• Provide proper documentation for each project. Continue helping us in our effort to document legacy code.
• Manage CMS, staging, and production environments and deployments via AWS ElasticBeanstalk.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to ensure all requirements are met. Communicate weekly progress, potential roadblocks, and needs to teammates and stakeholders.
• Provide technical advice and recommendations for language and software choices.
• Evaluate technologies and manage technical planning. This is particularly important when opportunities arise to replace legacy choices with modern day best practices.
• Aid us in modernizing our HTML and CSS.

Technical Requirements

• At least 5+ years’ experience developing and deploying web applications
• High proficiency with Python and Django
• Experience with AWS (EC2, Lambda) and scaling techniques
• Expertise in modern JavaScript/HTML/CSS and experience with Vue.js is a huge plus.
• Excellent data modeling skills and strong experience with query optimization
• Experience with web services and API consumption
• Experience with TDD and ability to write quality unit tests
• Strong experience with custom web-based application development
• Experience with Agile practices
• Comfortable collaborating with designers and other team members

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• developing and deploying web applications: 5 years (Required)
• JavaScript: 1 year (Required)
• AWS (EC2, Lambda) and scaling techniques: 1 year (Required)
• Python and Django: 3 years (Required)
• HTML: 1 year (Required)

Work Location: Remote