Overview
7-Eleven is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer – Python APIs to join the Digital Technology Team. You’re joining a multidisciplinary team of product managers, marketers, designers, and engineers who create digital products that hundreds of thousands of people experience every day.
About The Job
The SSE must have a strong and continuously growing proficiency in RESTful API development focused on Python. This includes actively participating in designing, developing, reviewing, testing, and deploying APIs (including supporting infrastructure) to drive our digital products.
About You
You have a passion for code and putting the customer first and delivering an exceptional experience through the creation of extendable and re-usable products.
Responsibilities
- Executes full product lifecycle (inception through deprecation) to create highly scalable and flexible RESTful APIs to enable an infinite number of digital products.
- Collaborates with other Engineers, Creative/UX designers, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Architects.
- The SSE must have a strong and continuously growing proficiency in RESTful API development focused on Python and Node.js. This includes actively participating in designing, developing, reviewing, testing, and deploying APIs (including supporting infrastructure) to drive our digital products.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of python server development using Django, Flask, Bottle, or other python frameworks
- 5+ years industry experience
- Ability to write unit-tested and maintainable code
- Expertise working with and building RESTful APIs
- Expert in Python
- Knowledgeable in cloud platforms (preferable AWS: both traditional EC2 and serverless Lambda), microservices architecture, CI/CD solutions (including Docker), DevOps principles, message queue systems, and background task management
- Experience with API security frameworks, token management, and user access control including OAuth, JWT, etc.
- Experience working with relational databases and SQL (Postgresql and SQL Server preferred)
- Solid foundation and understanding of relational and NoSQL database principles
- Well organized with a bias for action with minimal direction
- A team player with a start-up/entrepreneur mindset
- Ravenous about learning technology and problem-solving
- Strong writing and communication skills
TypeScript is a plus
Experience in Cyber security is a plus
- Understanding of OOP and Data Structures and know when to apply them in daily coding scenarios
- Message queues (RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, etc)
- Background task processing (Celery, etc)
- Experience configuring container-like systems (Vagrant, Docker, etc)
- Basic understanding of modern web components (HTML/CSS/JS)
- Ability to self-organize with minimal guidance/competing priorities and work effectively within a team
- Large organization experience - Large Scale projects
- Ability to work in an Agile /SCRUM environment
- Experience in GraphQL is a plus
- Experience In JavaScript
EEO Statement
Speedway is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or any other protected characteristic.
In Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and other applicable laws, we offer reasonable accommodation in the employment process. If you are unable to complete the application process due to a disability, please contact 1-888-225-5735, option 4.