Back End Software Engineer

at AWeber focus on contributing to a technology stack that serves our customers on a 24/7 basis. Using primarily Python and related tool chains, our engineers maintain web-based applications running on a Unix-based open source platform, using virtualization and AWS. Successful candidates in this role are constantly looking to push their capabilities forward through gaining new experiences that help them contribute more independently to bigger and harder challenges.

Our team includes smart people who appreciate talented goal seekers, continuous learning, experimentation and a lust for creating and implementing cutting edge technologies. We welcome those who share these passions to apply. Located in Chalfont, PA in Bucks County.

You’re a mid-level engineer who sets the performance bar high for yourself and engineers around you. You’ve not easily intimidated, whether faced with a blank screen from which you’ll create a new service, legacy code you’ll analyze, fix, or replace. At the end of the day, for you, it’s all part of delivering product consistently to the delight of your customers.

You’ve experienced failure, recognized your mistakes, course-corrected, and succeeded as a result, and you’re seeking an environment where failing fast is a cultural norm. You have a passion for technology, and view what you do as a craft. You enjoy working with open source software, tool chains, systems, and databases, and are always seeking out new solutions to difficult problems in technology.

You thrive in environments where technological and innovative velocity is high, and embrace the pace of challenging sprints.

Located in Chalfont, PA (Bucks County) - AWeber’s engineering team is a dynamic and exciting place to be. We use open source technologies like PostgreSQL, Python, Redis, Chef, Graphite, and RabbitMQ. We use approaches to software quality like Test-Driven Development, Continuous Deployment. We have a healthy addiction to metrics that give us insight into our applications, and how well they’re serving our customers.

We have a mode of execution built around Scrum and Kanban, and a Kaizen culture of continuous improvement. We believe in the kind of transparency, processes, data sharing, collaboration, and communication that foster a thriving culture.

• 3+ years experience delivering code & projects in a production environment
• Expertise in Python and related tool chains (pip, distribute, fabric, virtualenv)
• Experience working with other scripting languages, preferably Perl and/or PHP
• Experience with UNIX development tools (make, shell scripting)
• Experience developing and deploying to AWS or other cloud-based infrastructure services
• Familiarity with Test Driven Development (TDD) concepts, experience a plus
• Assertive, with excellent communication skills

• Design and develop web based services that support our product, customers, and third party developers.
• Contribute to the evolution of open source components within our technology stack
• Contribute to legacy code bases using Perl and PHP
• Develop, advance, and maintain our current suite of APIs and microservices
• Integrate new tools into our processes and suggest new ways of improving systems
• Provide, on an engineering-wide rotational basis, 24x7 coverage for the production application environment