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Software Engineer (Backend)
 O'Reilly Media Inc | |
 United States | |
 September 21, 2022 | |
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Description
Brief Description O'Reilly Media is looking for a Software Engineer well versed in Python and JavaScript to join one of our product teams, and contribute towards the development and maintenance of key features within our learning platform. About the Team O'Reilly Media's Platform Engineering team builds and supports O'Reilly's premier learning service, which is used by technologists, managers, and designers around the world to hone their skills and improve their craft. We are made of many small teams that are broadly distributed across the US, featuring diverse, tightly collaborative groups of developers, designers, and product managers constantly encouraging each other to deliver work that instills pride and fulfillment. We encourage learning, knowledge sharing, growth, and collaboration in all aspects. About the Job At O'Reilly, our engineers focus on building a diverse set of features designed in collaboration with product managers, UX, and other teammates. Engineers work with product managers to refine direction and solve user problems, exchange code reviews with other team members, provide mentorship to junior engineers, and assist QA and Ops in troubleshooting product issues. In this role, your focus will be on building and maintaining our back-end services. A bulk of our microservices are primarily built using Python & Django. More recently as a team, we have ventured into building JavaScript & Node.js services that stitch together individual microservices to be consumed by client-side applications. Our front-end applications use React + Redux and modern semantic HTML and CSS. About You We are interested in people who have experience building and supporting software with a diverse and engaged user base. We desire candidates who work comfortably in an agile environment and with collaborators who are distributed across multiple time zones. We value colleagues who are helpful, respectful, humble, and always willing to do what's best for our users. We desire developers who treat automated tests as essential and believe that code reviews are a crucial path of learning and of sharing knowledge. The people on our platform teams have taken many traditional and nontraditional paths to the developer profession, and we welcome diverse teams that are bound together by a mutual love of learning. Requirements
Bonus skills
About O'Reilly Media O'Reilly's mission is to change the world by sharing the knowledge of innovators. For over 40 years, we've inspired companies and individuals to do new things-and do things better-by providing them with the skills and understanding that's necessary for success. At the heart of our business is a unique network of experts and innovators who share their knowledge through us. O'Reilly Learning offers exclusive live training, interactive learning, a certification experience, books, videos, and more, making it easier for our customers to develop the expertise they need to get ahead. And our books have been heralded for decades as the definitive place to learn about the technologies that are shaping the future. Everything we do is to help professionals from a variety of fields learn best practices and discover emerging trends that will shape the future of the tech industry. Our customers are hungry to build the innovations that propel the world forward. And we help you do just that. Learn more: Diversity At O'Reilly, we believe that true innovation depends on hearing from, and listening to, people with a variety of perspectives. We want our whole organization to recognize, include, and encourage people of all races, ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, religions, sexual orientations, and professional roles. Learn more: | |