Plai Labs is hiring a Web3 Lead Python Architect
Compensation: $72k - $99k estimated
Location: Los Angeles
Lead Python Architect
Los Angeles /
Engineering - Plai App /
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Plai Labs is seeking a lead architect to shape our consumer mobile experience powered by AI and ML - PlaiDay. As the Lead Architect, you'll provide technical leadership, drive backend system architecture, and solve complex problems 50% of the time, and hands-on coding the other 50% of the time. We're looking for someone with 7+ years of Python experience, strong experience developing large scale distributed applications, strong DevOps skills, a passion for scalability, and can thrive in a collaborative team setting.
Our tech stack and other engineering tools include, but are not limited to:
- React Native frontend, TypeScript
- Python / Django backend
- Celery, Redis and GCP Pub Sub Queuing
- Pytorch ML backend
- Postgres as our database
- Gitlab for code review and CI
- Deployment to GCP
Responsibilities:
- Design and lead the implementation of the overall technical architecture and backend systems.
- Provide engineering leadership, mentorship, technical direction to a small team of other engineers (3-6 members).
- Design, develop, and implement distributed queueing and messaging systems.
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
- Conduct architecture reviews, ensuring adherence to design principles, patterns, and coding standards.
- Collaborate with the QA team to define testing strategies for high-quality, bug-free mobile applications.
- Developing and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure (GCP), including container orchestration, auto-scaling, monitoring, and logging.
- Optimize and fine-tune the middle-tier architecture to ensure efficient data processing, seamless integration with external services, and optimal resource utilization.
- Work closely with the database team to design and maintain the database schema and optimize query performance.
- Write clean and well-documented code that follows industry best practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in architecting and building complex systems.
- 3+ years in a technical leadership role, mentoring others, and defining technical roadmaps.
- Extensive experience as a Middle Tier Architect or a similar role, with a strong focus on Django and Python.
- Proficient in developing RESTful APIs and web services using Django REST Framework.
- Solid understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and GCP Spanner.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficient in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GCP Compute, Cloud Storage, IAM Security, and other GCP services.
- Familiarity with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Hands-on experience with large scale distributed database systems, such as PostgreSQL or GCP Spanner, and efficient in writing efficient SQL queries.
- Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining dev, staging, and integration environments, implementing CI/CD following industry best practices.
- Experience working with mobile application development teams and understanding the unique challenges of mobile app backends.
- Excellent communication skills, a proactive mindset and a willingness to take ownership of projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Celery/Redis or other task processing and message queuing tools.
- Advanced skills with Django and PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with machine learning algorithms and AI principles.
- Experience in mobile application backend development iOS Proficiency in modern DevOps tools and methodologies.
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