Senior Python Backend Engineer

About Collectly: Collectly is a fast growing and profitable healthcare tech startup that leverages proprietary interfaces with electronic health record systems to improve the patient financial experience. Over 300,000 patients are engaged daily across thousands of medical practices in the US to accelerate and increase patient cash flow, streamline pre and post-service billing operations, and provide the best patient experience that works for all demographics.

Please, see a short video about us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8MDn3uIxI

Job description

• Develop features and improvements to the Collectly product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.

• Collaborate with Founders and Core Team (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.

• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.

• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.

• Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.

• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.

• Represent Collectly and its values in public communication around specific projects.

• Ship small and midsized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.

• Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

Job requirements

• Significant professional experience with Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery.

• At least basic algorithms and data structure knowledge.

• Understanding of race conditions and how to mitigate them by crafting concurrent code.

• Proficiency in the English & Russian languages, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.

• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.

• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems, including SQL.

• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.

• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.

• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.

• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.

• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.

• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.

• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.

• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.

• Ability to use GitLab.

• Permanent location - UTC - 6 to UTC+4 timezones (from Mexico to Dubai)

You can work remotely from any country within these timezones except the countries under international sanctions.