Back End Engineer

Hello Are you ready to Work from Home and transform your career? If you have great consulting skills and know you can consistently delight our customers and help grow our accounts, Modus is the perfect fit for you. Our high performance team helps our clients to build awesome solutions to accomplish their goals and vision. Are you interested in working from home with some of the best talent on the planet? Then keep reading. We're looking for a **Back End Engineer** to join the engineering team at Modus. **About You** **Experience Level: Senior** **[In reference to requisition 1726]** You love building great software. Your work could be supporting new feature development, migrating existing features, or creating APIs. You'll have a primary focus on backend development in Python. Our client's tech stack is Python and AWS. We use modern tools, which means you'll have the opportunity to work with software like AWS Serverless services, Docker, Redis, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible and much more. You have strong experience with Python using AWS services such as Lambdas, EventBridge, queues, RDS (MySql), SES, and CloudFormation. You love writing automated tests (Unit, Integration, etc). You understand how to design systems in a distributed manner across hundreds (and even thousands) of servers - we handle 100s of millions of API calls every week and are growing fast. You understand Agile software development. You also have experience with integrating with third party APIs - i.e. GitHub, Jira, Cloudflare. - You love learning and understand that software is an ever-evolving world. You enjoy playing with new tech and exploring areas that you might not have experience with yet. You are self-driven, self-learner willing to share knowledge and participate actively in your community. Having overlap with your team is critical when working in a global remote team. Modus requires all team members to overlap with EST hours daily. In addition, reliable high speed internet is a must. **Things You Might Do** Modus is a fast-growing, and remote-first company, so you'll likely get experience on many different projects across the organization. That said, here are some things you'll probably do: - Give back to the community via open source and blog posts - Travel and meet great people - as part of our remote-first lifestyle, it's important that we come together as needed to work together, meet each other in person and have fun together. Please keep that in mind when you apply. - Teach and be taught: Modus creates active teams that work in internal and external projects together, giving opportunities to stay relevant with the latest technologies and learning from experts worldwide - Interact directly with internal and external clients to represent Modus and its values. Our Benefits may vary according to the Country you are located in, so please reach out to our recruiter in case you have any questions. **If you live in Costa Rica and you become a full-time employee we offer**: - Competitive compensation - 100% Remote work (could vary according to the client's needs) - Flexible working hours - Travel according to client's needs - Company paid private insurance - The chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech - Social Security (CCSS) by law **If you live in Romania and you become a full-time employee we offer**: - Competitive compensation - Medical insurance - Meal vouchers - Telework indemnity - Bookster subscription - Extra PTO Days with Tenure per year worked(up to max. 4 days) - Possibility to obtain paid certification/courses if they align with company goals and are relevant for the employee's role - Client Referral program - 100 % remote work and the possibility to work from the office - The chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech **If you live in the USA and you become a full-time employee we offer**: - Competitive compensation - Health insurance (medical, vision, and dental) and other benefits (FSA and HSA) - Virtual Care support - 401(K) match to up to 3.5% of your annual salary - Optional Voluntary Short or Long-term disability insurance. - Remote work - The chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech - Flexible Time Off/PTO **If you live anywhere else you can become a contractor, and then we offer**: - Competitive compensation - 100% Remote work (could vary according to the client's needs) - Travel according to client's needs - Employee Referral Program - The chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech **About Modus** Modus Create is a digital product group that accelerates digital transformation. We use high performing small teams, emerging technology, and "new school" product development tools and methods to accelerate business outcomes. We support our clients across four core delivery areas: business and product strategy consulting, customer experience, cloud services, and Agile software delivery. Driven by a team