Job Title

Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer at Known, you can expect to work across various projects. You’ll join small, highly focused teams where you’ll have the opportunity to significantly influence the direction of our products, team practices, and the company’s broader technical culture!

On the backend, you'll work on distributed systems, API endpoints, event-driven microservices, asynchronous and parallel programming, pipelines, and reporting systems. You'll be responsible for designing these distributed systems and pipelines using a variety of architectural design patterns.

You'll primarily use Python on the backend. Most of our infrastructure is cloud-based (AWS), and we use Docker and container orchestrators for deployment.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Design and build full-stack web applications

Create performant Web APIs with FastAPI

Integrate with industry-standard datastores like PostgreSQL and Snowflake

Design asynchronous and event-driven services

Produce robust ETL pipelines with Argo Workflows

Deploy these applications across multiple environments with Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes

Restrictions

• Telecommuting is OK
• Agencies are OK

Requirements

3+ years of extensive Python application/API experience

Experience with SQL and relational databases

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus

Experience with Airflow, ETL, or message-oriented architectures is a plus

Experience with big data tools and technologies, such as Spark and Parquet, is a plus

Experience with UI frameworks, such as Vue or React, is a plus

About the Company

Known is a modern marketing company engineered for the unprecedented opportunities and challenges facing marketers today. We are about 250+ people strong, pairing PhD data scientists with award-winning creatives, strategists, engineers and expert research teams to produce some of the most innovative and cutting-edge creative work in culture.

Contact Info

• Contact: Amy Kent
• E-mail contact: amyke@known.is
• Web: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/known/jobs/8164921002