Overview

We’re looking for a developer interested in writing and running the mission-critical payments-related services of Prezi and building forward-thinking web experiences and interactions for our users.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a growing start-up, building things millions of people will see every day. You will experience and experiment with new technologies and work with a group of people from who you can learn and keep pushing things forward. This position is located in our Budapest office.

You should be excited about:

  • Joining a team that focuses on the growth of the whole product
  • Working in a small, cross-functional team with other engineers, and work closely with designers, data analysts, marketing specialists, sales and support professionals, product managers
  • Creating customer-facing applications
  • New technology and design
  • Learning backend and frontend technologies as well
  • Working in a challenging, fast-paced and always changing environment.

Challenges you will be working on:

  • Participate in building a microservice architecture which scales, routes around failure and lets us build complex systems out of small components as well as maintain existing web applications
  • Continuously improve our architecture
  • Learn a lot about how a payments system works and it’s unique challenges
  • Develop and maintain existing backend services (mostly written in Python) to ensure they are efficient, reliable and secure
  • Developing high fidelity functional prototypes to validate growth initiatives
  • Pro-actively enhancing our web platform and underlying infrastructure
  • Take part in the whole software development lifecycle in an agile environment

Technical requirements:

  • 4+ years experience in developing web applications and web services
  • Solid knowledge in Python or any other similar scripting language
  • Solid understanding of backend web service APIs(Restful) and the full web technology stack, so you have a stable and broad knowledge in web application development
  • Passion for clean, maintainable code
  • Familiarity with SQL

Advantages:

  • Experience in frontend frameworks and libraries (e.g. React, Redux)
  • Knowledge of test automation of backend and frontend applications
  • Passion for user-centric interface design
  • Experience with 3rd party integrations (e.g. Paypal, Zuora, Braintree, Stripe)
  • DevOps mindset and experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, Ansible, Linux administration
  • Experience with Django

General requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering – equivalent work experience is acceptable
  • Must demonstrate either significant personal or professional experience in software development
  • Able to meet deadlines, work in a multicultural environment, exchange knowledge with colleagues, and be up-to-date with new trends
  • Ability & willingness to learn fast and pick up new things easily
  • Curiosity to learn new technologies and technical domains
  • Analyze and solve programming tasks independently and proactively
  • Strong critical thinking skills
  • Great communication skills in English