Software Engineer - Python
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What we know
Is it still open?
Confirmed still open
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How old is it?
Posted 12h ago
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Is it remote?
Marked remote on the employer's board
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Who may apply?
India
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Pay not stated
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The listing
About Ottimate
Ottimate helps fast-growing businesses automate Accounts Payable (AP) on their terms. We simplify everything from invoice management to payments for both recurring and one-off expenses with a cloud-first approach. Ottimate's AI-native AP Automation and VendorPay Network helps businesses pay and get paid faster.
At Ottimate, passion generates excitement for what we do and how we do it. With passion at the heart of everything we do, we nurture ideas, inspire excellence, and find creative ways to eliminate obstacles for cultivating growth. The positive attitude with which we assist one another develops open, honest, and genuine connections. Above all, we celebrate and embrace our differences. We invest in each other because we win or lose as a team.
Our values are at the center of our company and culture. At Ottimate, we value: Growth, Customer Focus, Innovation, Accountability, and Communication.
The Role:
Ottimate's mission is to make accounts payables and payments effortless for businesses. We are looking for a Backend Engineer to contribute to our new product efforts and help us take ideas to market. Our stack is based on Django, Angular, Postgres, and AWS. Expertise in Django is must. Planning, shipping, and learning are the most important traits we are looking for.
Requirements
You will:
Discuss, plan, build and test new features.
Bring in learnings from your previous roles and experiences to help build exciting new fintech innovations for businesses everywhere
Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and other stakeholders in defining the user experience.
Triage and fix bugs, often working directly with users.
Manage code reviews through Pull Requests and make sure we're moving fast while maintaining Unit Tests and quality.
Help migrate some of the modules into independent micro-services.
Work on product features that affect 10s of thousands of customers.
Experience working in an early-stage startup is a huge plus.
Skills and Experience:
3+ years of professional experience working on web applications using modern software engineering processes.
Proficient in Python and Django.
Debugging complex database performance issues.
You think critically about your work and ask questions in order to improve the product, not only on its technical implementation but also on how well it’s serving the users' needs.
You have built performant and scalable backends, made pragmatic tradeoffs, and can point to your prior work.
You have strong communication skills and are able to explain complex technical topics to the entire team in a clear and concise way.
When things inevitably break, you eagerly jump in to diagnose and fix the core issues.
Nice to haves:
Fintech / Accounting experience.
ERP / Accounting Systems integrations experience.
Exposure to Purchase Orders
AWS DevOps
Product sense