Python Lead Developer

A software developer's job description may vary depending on the organization and specific project, but generally, it includes:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field (sometimes, relevant experience can substitute for formal education).
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages and related technologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).
• Familiarity with software development tools, IDEs, and frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with team members and stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and in a team.
• Continuous learning to stay updated with the latest technology trends.
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• Collaborate with engineering, design and product teams to build and ship new features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product using Agile methodologies.
• Maintain and improve web applications. Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Self-contribution & able to manage and execute work through team members.
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Create proof of concepts to demonstrate feasibility of proposed solution
• Continuously discover, evaluate and learn new technologies to stay at the forefront of technology innovation
• Write good quality, modular, reusable, well documented, unit-tested code.

100ms is building a Platform-as-a-Service for developers integrating video-conferencing experiences into their apps. Our SDKs enable developers to add gold standard audio-video quality conferencing with much faster shipping times.

We are a team uniquely placed to work on this problem. We have built world-record scale live video infrastructure powering billions of live video minutes in a day. We are a remote-first global team with engineers who've built video teams at Facebook and Hotstar.

100ms Platform-as-a-Service will reduce shipping live conferencing application time to days instead of months, allowing companies to focus on their core business.

We are designing our client SDKs to bring the ease-of-use of Stripe and the quality-and-scale of zoom to video conferencing. As part of the client SDK team, your job will involve creating these SDKs.

• Drive design and implementation of 100ms's JavaScript SDKs
• Articulate complex architecture problems, drive engineering excellence and collaborate with a cross-functional team
• Speak with fellow developers - our customers - to identify and prioritize features that will help achieve our goals of gold-standard audio-video conferencing in a few lines of code
• Help scale our platform to support billions of minutes a day across thousands devices around the world
• Help maintain a first-class developer onboarding experience - including writing documentation and sample apps
• Share technical practices, build development teams, and improve workflows
• Contribute to open source as we set the standards for video conferencing

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1-3 years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with JavaScript framework development. 
• Experience in API design, performance optimization, client architecture or tools in the JavaScript space
• Knowledge of JavaScript SDK performance tools and optimization techniques

• Experience with video conferencing, Sockets, WebRTC, WebAssembly, Webpack, Canvas
• Experience with React
• Ability to take on complex and ambiguous problems
• Ability to ship consumer facing, high quality, mobile products
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically
• Strong inclination to keep up-to-date with latest trends, learn new concepts, or contribute to open-source projects and would be eager to talk about ideas in internal or external forums

• You'll be part of a small team at a fast-growing engineering-first startup
• You'll work with engineers across the globe with experience in video at places like Facebook and Hotstar
• You can grow as an individual contributor or as a team leader - freedom to set your own goals
• You'll work on problems at the cutting-edge of real-time video communication technology at massive scale

Responsibilities

Ability to work on a cross-functional team within a very agile team, delivering on time and with high quality

Adjusts and defines new processes as they arise due to known and unknown customer/engineering requirements as it relates to frontend web development

Provides feedback on frontend architecture, code organization and CI/CD infrastructure for the team

Staying up to date with the best practices and future frontend development

Provides frontend leadership expertise and mentoring to other developers on not only the team, but the engineering organization as a whole

Takes pride in delivering ground breaking UI to web applications

Working closely with UX designers to turn their ideas into reality as it relates to creating visualizations for next generation cybersecurity

Qualifications

Proficient in developing large REACT Web Applications

Experience with Django applications

Proficient with TypeScript

Experience with Postgres or other relational database(s)

Experience developing REST APIs with authentication and scaling

Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

Cloud computing architectures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Experience with Docker a plus

Mandatory experience: 8 + years