Senior Python Engineer

Location: • Zagreb, Croatia
• Europe, Remote

Category: • Python
• AWS
• REST API
• Django

What's the Project?

Our client is a nonprofit organization focused on transforming secondary education through innovative, competency-based learning models. They provide a competency-based learning management system (LMS) and integrated data dashboards to support personalized education for students and educators. These tools are designed to enable real-time tracking of student progress, portfolio building, and competency assessments, aligning with their mission to center learning around individual needs.In addition to the LMS, our client develops data analytics platforms that help schools and districts analyze performance metrics and improve decision-making processes.

You Perfectly Match If you have:

5+ years of professional coding experience using Python
Solid Object Oriented design and development skills
Good knowledge of programming patterns
Experience with AWS
Experience working with databases (Postgres) and query optimization
Experience in API design (REST API, OpenAPI)
Experience with Django Framework
Experience in building scalable systems
Good understanding of security/access control, scalability, high availability, and concurrency patterns

Code management: GIT

Experience in working with Scrum teams
At least Upper Intermediate spoken and written English

Your day-to-day activities:

Operate effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment
Design, build and maintain complex products by determining current limitations and coming up with creative solutions
Proactively designing & implementing integrations with applications and services
Ensure the best practices in code development is followed, help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
Improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the codebase
Collaborate with other engineers to review code
Collaborate with the team to identify and clarify detailed requirements
Support with Scrum/Agile software development approach (e.g., sprint, standups, retros, planning, pointing, grooming, etc.)