Backend Developer

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 to add a server-side (backend) developer to join our engineering team. If you’re interested in solving complex problems associated with providing a smart home experience to others and scaling an application to handle hundreds of thousands to millions of events a day, as well as working in an open, diverse, and inclusive environment, Ambient could be an ideal fit for your career. We’ve had tremendous growth in the past few years and we have an exciting roadmap ahead of us.

We look for strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers with a bias for execution and we’ll expect you to contribute code as well as product/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
• Architect, design, and implement backend 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 code on a daily basis

Required Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Python and proficiency in various Python libraries and frameworks
• Experience with distributed systems
• A deep understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals such as data structures, parallel and concurrent programming primitives, inter-process communication, cryptography, and so forth
• You prefer simple yet fully functional and extensible solutions
• You can quickly iterate without compromising on quality
• You write clean code
• You are independent and autonomous
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, another related field or its equivalent.

It Would Be Great If You Also Possess

• Experience with FastAPI
• Experience with Kafka
• Data storage-related experience or familiarity with PostgreSQL
• EKS experience

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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.
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