Ambient
Senior Backend Engineer
Job Summary
The role involves developing and maintaining backend services for a smart property management platform, primarily using Python and Golang. The candidate will design, implement, and deploy scalable solutions, working closely with product and engineering teams. Experience with integrations, distributed systems, and cloud services like AWS is important. The position requires a senior-level engineer capable of working independently, mentoring others, and contributing to complex technical challenges.
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About The Company
Ambient combines a decade of operational experience with design and engineering prowess to improve apartment living and management in the most impactful, cost-effective way possible.
The name "Ambient" embodies our vision to create a category-defining platform that seamlessly integrates smart technology into the built environment and transforms the way people live, visit, and work in multifamily communities. Our focus is on increasing the value of multifamily properties by making them more efficient to operate and more comfortable to live in.
About The Role
We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you’ll be helping us open up the capabilities of our platform by working on integrations across the smart home and property management space. These are complex problems to solve, and we’re excited about the road ahead of us.
We look for strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers with a bias for execution. We’ll expect you to contribute code as well as product and feature ideas from the get-go.
Our technology stack features languages like Python and Golang combined with technologies like AWS SNS, Lambda and EKS to allow us to gain data integrity across the platform. We also use intuitive database solutions such as Postgres.
Responsibilities
- Program; mostly in Python (and a bit of Golang)
- Architect, design, and implement services including the core API, backend data processing, and vendor integrations.
- Own the full lifecycle of development including design, prototyping, testing, release, and deployment
- Interact directly with other engineering and product teams
- Automate testing of the code you contribute
- Review pull requests on a daily basis
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of Python and proficiency in various Python libraries and frameworks
- Experience with distributed systems
- Prior experience in a true Senior Software Engineering role (i.e. a high-level of proficiency in your area, the ability to work independently and capacity to mentor more junior team members)
- Solid experience with integrations and the ability to quickly get up to speed on on new APIs
- A deep understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals
- A preference for simple yet fully functional and extensible solutions
- Ability to quickly iterate without compromising on quality
Great to have, but not required
- Experience with FastAPI and Pydantic
- Experience with Golang
- Experience with Docker, Kafka and AWS services (EKS, Lambda, IoT, etc.)
- Data storage-related experience or familiarity with PostgreSQL
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Ambient Property Technologies Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability or genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
A note to recruitment agencies: Please don’t reach out to Ambient employees or leaders about our roles -- we’ve got recruiting covered. We don’t accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Thank you for your understanding.
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