Packet Fabric Senior Backend-leaning Full Stack Engineer

Quickly maturing startup seeking like minded Sr. Backend-leaning Fullstack Engineer! PacketFabric redefines how companies procure, consume, and manage their network connectivity. The technical team is a small, talented, and close knit group and we need a team member to help us accomplish our goal of making the best darn carrier network on the planet.

Description

• As a well rounded software engineer, you should definitely be the type that appreciates diversity in your day, and challenges outside of your comfort level! A typical day in the life of a PacketFabric senior software engineer might include these types of activities:


• Designing a deterministic lifecycle workflow for our next product offering.


• Writing core platform code for a new feature, and unit tests for functionality.


• Refactoring and improving existing code for performance and simplicity. For example, breaking a large method into smaller, more maintainable and easily tested methods.


• Building command line tools to help network engineers better manage network state.


• Researching additional ideas, you may have to improve the product/platform overall and sharing with the team.


• Interacting with customers and/or sales on a bug in the software, quickly resolving it, and coordinating across the team to push a fix.


• Working with backend engineers and discussing quirks in network protocols and network interconnection which translate rapid API and UI changes.

Requirements

• The right candidate will have an abundance of hard core programming skills, have solid instincts for API usability and design patterns. You are probably a full stack developer who naturally gravitates towards work on a product core. You know how to sacrifice algorithmic elegance for getting it done on deadline. More specifics include:


• Extensive experience with Python and PHP in large applications developed in a team environment.


• Expert unit tester.


• Experience in large scale distributed systems.


• Extensive experience with the HTTP protocol and developing and using RESTful APIs.


• A solid understanding of OO programming paradigms.


• Experience with a message queue system like RabbitMQ or Kafka.


• Experience using NoSQL data stores like Redis.


• Be completely at home on any *nix command line and building your own tools.


• Very comfortable using Git in a team environment (i.e. pull-requests, branch management, rebasing).


• Experience working in an environment leveraging remote communication collaboration tools like Slack, Zoom etc.


• Never being afraid to venture boldly where none have gone before and develop code where there are no previous libraries to draw from.

Preferred Experience

• A huge plus for actually doing any router/switch configuration or infrastructure automation.


• Previous exposure to layer 2/3 networking protocols and concepts such as IPv4/6, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.


• Experience with Python-based web application frameworks like Flask, Django, or Sanic


• Any experience interacting with physical world equipment - industrial, medical, etc


• Experience creating highly maintainable Javascript.


• SQL experience.


• Experience with Vue.js, Angular and AngularJS.


• GraphQL


• Experience creating large scale data visualizations of any type.