Lead Django Backend Engineer at Textme

Join us in revolutionizing the way people communicate with each other, worldwide! TextMe was created in March 2011 with a single vision and a single measure for success: to remove the modern barriers of communicating and provide people with universal and free communication options. TextMe’s ultimate goal is to achieve the highest quality and thus rival and surpass classical communication alternatives. In order to deliver on this vision, TextMe gathered a group of enthusiastic engineers, with brilliant development skills in web and mobile technologies, joined by highly experienced entrepreneurs with in-depth technical and commercial expertise in mobile and telecommunications and, last but not least, with solid financial skills - thus enabling a sound, though fast-growing, self-funded development of the company. TextMe is based in downtown San Francisco in Union Square. If you’re looking for a growing company with delighted customers, a dedication to products designed with the user in mind and a challenging project in a super competitive space, we want to hear from you! You will play a critical role in delivering flawless real-time communication services to our customers by working closely with our awesome engineering team! Essential Functions: Design, develop and maintain new services and APIs used by our clientsLiaise with product development efforts to ensure continuity of back-end with client needsScaling our systems for rapid growthRoadmap planning, release management, coordination between management and existing backend teamManagement of junior team members The ideal candidate will have the following characteristics: Django experience required!PythonRESTTest-driven development experienceDatabases: MySQL, Cassandra, Memcache, Redis, AWS, cloud infrastructure & APIsAbility to successfully execute in a small team environmentManagement capabilities What we offer: Competitive compensation and benefitsHybrid work environmentAmbitious, lively, congenial, fun, creative and horizontal environmentOutstanding personal growth opportunities