Senior Software Development Engineer

Market Builder Group, CBRE | Bellevue, WA

We are looking for a senior software development engineer with 5+ years of Python/Django experience to help expand our existing platform and lead the development of new features and products. This person would begin immediately as a full‑time employee in Bellevue, WA.

Backed by several senior CBRE executives, our small, fast‑paced team has developed a robust platform designed to both support data analytics and deliver simple, intuitive client‑side applications. Our current infrastructure is loosely comprised of:

• A flexible, scalable, cloud‑based application layer
• Client‑side applications designed for specific user groups

As our platform continues to grow we would look to you and your team of backend developers to help expand and improve the capabilities of the application and API layers. You will touch a broad range of technologies related to infrastructure management, databases, application development, and API design. A high level of proficiency in Python application development is required.

• Writing beautiful code and implementing fantastic solutions (extremely important)
• Facilitating the architecture and implementation of new products/technologies
• Keeping the existing platform running efficiently
• Guiding the application and API development process at both a macro- and micro‑level by leveraging our agile principles with your team
• Working closely with/mentoring other developers to build Python applications based on industry standards (proper workflow, code style, test coverage, documentation, etc.)
• Helping with the prioritization and assignment of issues (bugs, enhancements, new features, refactoring, etc.)
• Enforcing best practices through peer/code reviews
• Ensuring that we are continuously raising our standard of engineering excellence

• Five or more years of professional experience in Python
• Django experience is a strong plus
• Solid understanding of REST APIs and database designs*
• Experience modeling and implementing data structures in Postgre
  
  SQL/PostGIS
• Some level of familiarity with Dev Ops (Salt Stack or related) – a strong plus
• Some familiarity with AWS services (EC2, RDS, IAM) – a strong plus

• Asynchronous task queues (Celery, Redis, Rabbit
  
  MQ)
• GIS and related technologies (Geo Django, ESRI, PostGIS)
• Elastic Search, or related Lucene based search technologies
• Infra‑Ops/Dev‑Ops (Salt Stack, Cloud Formation)

• A commitment to your career so you can grow with the group
• An awesome team with whom to collaborate (including great consulting partners)
• A competitive compensation package, complete with benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision/401(k)/Disability)
• Casual dress/atmosphere
• An open source culture/atmosphere that encourages learning and contributing back to the community. We support staying on top of the latest development best practices and tools, and often will help facilitate attending key conferences (e.g. PyCon, PyData).
• Work from home one day a week
• Paid holidays/vacation

Our primary goal is to solve complex problems with the best solutions. That said, below is a sample of the technologies we currently leverage:

• Backend App/API – Python/Django, Django Rest Framework, Celery, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Redis, Pandas, Num Py, Elastic Search, Postgre
  
  SQL/PostGIS
• Infrastructure & Related – AWS (multiple services), Jenkins, Salt Stack, Ubuntu
• Development Workflow – Git/Git Hub, Travis CI, Slack

We are a small (but growing) data analytics and business solutions team within CBRE’s corporate development group. We are uniquely positioned within the organization to access global data, tools, resources, and leaders throughout the industry. Our mission is to create value within the business by developing targeted, highly scalable technology platforms for internal and external consumption. At the end of the day, we exist to solve complex commercial real estate problems by bringing together good people, great minds, and top tier technologies.

We are firm believers in leveraging and supporting open source projects and their broader communities whenever possible.