Senior backend developer - Python

At Novakid, we have a mission to create the best in the world online education platform for children. With over 50,000 students and 2,000 teachers, we are already one of the most popular language learning platforms for 4 - 12 year olds in Europe and Asia.

We have gotten this far, but there is so more to do and that’s where you come in!

We are now looking for a senior backend developer with strong knowledge of Python, PostgreSQL, and Rest APIs to join our growing engineering team. You will be joining a small, high performance team responsible for development of back office applications and their integration with third party services.

You have ...

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of experience as Python Developer
• Experience in designing and developing scalable backends and REST APIs
• Experience working with our stack: Python 3.8+, PostgreSQL, Redis, FastAPI, Flask, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, Celery, pydantic
• Good understanding of what AI can bring to back end development;
• Experience in writing unit tests (pytest, mock, etc.)
• Experience with micro-service architecture
• Good English

A bonus if you have …

• Worked on gaming/gamification or e-learning projects
• Developed and deployed application on AWS
• Participated in architecture discussions on your previous projects
• Experience with no / low code workflow automation solutions

This is what we would like you to know in addition and have experience with…

• general concepts relate to LLM (RAG, prompt engineering, embeddings, agents)
• general knowledge of the models & service and their capabilities (text, images, video, music, multimodal solutions)
• understanding of production deployment of LLMs (cloud providers, self hosted, on-device)

We offer...

• Remote work
• Friendly young team
• Unlimited holidays
• Bonuses and stock options