Overview

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

 

Unata is looking for a backend developer to help scale our platform to support millions of shoppers across multiple retail partners around the globe. You’ll work with our team of developers and data scientists to build solutions that power slick mobile and web applications, personalized content services, and robust integrations with retailer data systems.

 

TLDR; we want you to fire rich, personalized content from web services to targeted individuals on all the devices at an incredible rate while juggling multiple data streams that are coming in HOT… reliably.

WHAT MAKES WORKING AT UNATA SO GREAT?

 

• Working with dedicated people that want to make an impact. This ain’t no another-day-another-dollar gig.

• A working environment where your opinions are discarded. Just kidding, your opinions are valuable. That’s why we want to hire you!

• A team that appreciates learning new technologies and implementing them when they make sense.

• Attending various developer conferences like PyCon where our team is regularly selected to present (Latest tutorial)

• Competitive compensation and stock options.

• Stocked-up fridge full of food and beer.

• Totally-optional, totally-fun activities every Friday, usually ping pong at Spin Toronto or board games in the office.

REQUIREMENTS, REQUIREMENTS, REQUIREMENTS

• 2-3 years of professional software development experience

• Solid grasp of computer science concepts: data structures, algorithms, and programming paradigms. We are very keen on implementing red-black trees here at Unata.

• Understands and implements engineering best practices: automated testing, version control systems, documentation, continuous integration, duct tape redundancy, etc.

• Feels at home (cd ~) in a Unix development environment.

• Can clearly communicate complex technical concepts: “Set the Geiger Powerlantern to 3!”

• Has built and shipped real software. You know… flappy bird clones… all that jazz.

• Can demonstrate and talk about their willingness to learn new things. Like that new reactive microservice framework everyone’s been deploying on docker lately.

 

BONUS POINTS!

• Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, etc

• Experience with the following technologies (C-c-c-c-Combo Breaker!):

  • Python (+ for Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery)

  • RDBMS (+ for PostgreSQL)

  • Cassandra

  • Memcached

  • Redis

• Cool personal projects on github or other places

• Oh! And a willingness to be the greatest ping pong player in the world (or the office)

 

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

 

Send us a note with a copy of your resume, let us know how how much of a great fit for the position you are.