Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Please note that we work from 4pm-12pm Moscow time

About the Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Zentist your work drives the business. Every commit you make to automate manual workflows saves more people from enduring thousands of hours of frustration in dental offices across the USA. You and your team pioneer solutions to make the system reliable, scalable, and easy to reason about.

Your team

• Develops the automated data flows which power our entire business, saving dental offices significant time and money
• Creates new interfaces to an increasing number of dental back office systems, increasing Zentist's impact in the market
• Evaluates capabilities and limitations of our existing architecture and creates the next generation of systems to effortlessly scale to thousands of practices
• Raises the bar in our pursuit of small, fast, quality releases which incrementally create a great experience for both internal and external customers

You come to us with

• Several years of development experience. You directly influence the technical design of critical systems and shepherd them through the entire development process.
• Experience contributing to web applications written in Python and frequently collaborating with front end developers.
• A drive to continually increase your team's code quality by promoting best practices and techniques based on your real-life experience.
• Integration experience that makes the best use of available APIs and support while identifying and building around their limitations.
• History of continuous learning and improvement, keeping your skills current and leading to an understanding of new technical options.

Our teams currently use Python 3.x, Flask, DJango and FastAPI in different subsystems, Graphene, Alchemy, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker, K8s, PlayWright, PyTest, React and various 3rd party APIs.