About Us:

• At Railroad19, Inc., we build custom solutions and provide our clients with top tier development services. We’re a specialized team of developers and architects, which means, we only bring an “A” team to the table. Our culture is built on hard work and a desire to be thought leaders in the industry, this is what sets Railroad19 apart.
• When you join Railroad19 you are part of a company that values your work and gives you the tools you need to succeed, while offering you a work/life balance. We are headquartered in Saratoga Springs, New York, but we are a distributed team across the US.
• This is a full-time position with comprehensive benefits, vacation, 401k and more. Railroad19 provides competitive compensation with excellent benefits and a great corporate culture.
• The role is remote role (U.S. Only), only full-time employment
• (NO- contractors, Corp-to-Corp or 1099).

Core responsibilities:

• 5 years of related experience in software engineering, or an equivalent combination of education/experience
• Understand our client's fast-moving business requirements and work effectively in teams and with the client.
• Be able to understand business requirements and work effectively in teams and with the client.
• Negotiate appropriate solutions with multiple stakeholders
• Write and maintain scalable enterprise-quality software while building a serverless cloud with Python
• Expertise in Python and AWS Cloud
• Contribute to our backend architecture, including our REST APIs, serverless components, and databases
• Responsible for building out new features, updating existing services and state machines, integration with external APIs, and contributing to our CICD workflows.
• Build software components that integrate with a workflow engine and/or ESB to execute asynchronous business processes
• Helping the team write automated integration tests between the various services.
• Manage the complete software development life cycle
• Write software using modern software engineering techniques that minimize defects.
• Identify new opportunities, tools, and services to enhance the custom software platform
• Support and troubleshoot issues (process & system), identify root cause, and proactively recommend sustainable corrective actions

Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of experience in Python development working in an enterprise environment.
• Hands-on experience managing distributed systems and clusters
• Proven experience working with building out new features, updating existing services and state machines, integration with external APIs, and contributing to our CICD workflows.
• Strong knowledge of SQL/Postgres
• Experience with Integration testing and automation
• Experience building cloud applications with AWS serverless technologies, including State machines, ECS Fargate, cloud formation
• Demonstrates a willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in delivering working software
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience participating on an agile team
• Is self-directed and can effectively contribute with little supervision
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another technical discipline;

• Nice to Have's
• Docker
• Java
• NodeJs
• UI/UX

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.