Job Opportunities in Kuwait

Duties & Responsibilities

Job Description

Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities
Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
Integration of data storage solutions include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.

Skills

Expert in Python
Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
Strong unit test and debugging skills
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools .

Previous experience in professional software development is not required, but an interest in adopting best engineering practices is. Problem solving skills demonstrated:

• Analyzing, and validating a variety of input data sources; identifying the relationship among source data objects.
• Developing common definitions of sourced data; defining reusable approach to data integration
• Designing efficient approach to processing third party data using Python
• Designing efficient approach to analyzing data-at-scale using Python
• Proactively identify process improvements and ways to increase development efficiency in the organization
• Ability to multi-tasking and managing competing priorities while meeting assigned deadlines

Technical skills demonstrated

• Solid knowledge of Python
• Solid knowledge of the principles of class-based object-oriented programming
• Knowledge of standard web technology (HTTP, client/server model, REST)
• Experience with SQL

Communication / Interpersonal skills demonstrated:

• Gaining knowledge on the organization’s processes as they evolve and change; recommending changes
• Enjoys working in a highly feedback oriented team setting
• Motivated by the "always on" startup environment

Education

• BS in Computer science preferred
• Data Science coursework preferred