Do you love Python? Would you like to make the world a better place? edX is seeking a senior to principal level software engineer for the edX Platform team. The Platform team at edX tackles the hard problems that arise from operating a successful, complex, consumer-facing web application. The team takes on projects to make other engineers more effective. Recent projects have included enhancing the continuous delivery pipeline, designing and implementing plug-in architectures, and creating common libraries and patterns to make creating and delivering new services faster.

The ideal candidate will have strong Python and Python tooling (pip, pip-tools, tox, travis) skills, the ability to dive in to a deep code base and be able to work independently and with the team to drive their solutions over the finish line.

The platform team values a collaborative egoless culture and iterative process. You will work with and learn from some of the best in the industry today. The ideal candidate will value teamwork, cutting edge technology, and a vibrant start-up atmosphere to work in.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, deploy, and support scalable software systems.
• Understand and leverage key aspects of building operationally viable solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers as they continue to develop their skill sets.
• Support the open source community.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Real-world experience with Python
• Strong back end programming skills: Python, Django, Mysql
• Demonstrated skills in building service oriented architectures
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Committed to documentation best practices so your code can be consumed in an open source environment

Preferred:

• Able to code front to back, including HTML, CSS, Javascript, Django, MySQL.
• Python tooling experience
• Contributor to or consumer of Open Source Frameworks.
• BS in Computer Science or related field of study.

edX is an MIT Start-up company that offers a competitive benefits plan, a pension program, free lunches every day as well as a plethora of other fun perks and meaningful work! Are you ready to be a part of our Mission?