Backend Engineer

About the company:

Stasher frees you to make the most of your time by connecting you with local shops and hotels who can store your bags no matter where you are. We operate in over 80 cities: from Sydney to Tokyo to London to New York.

We believe time is valuable and you should be able to make the most of it. We focused on simplicity, security and scalability, to create an innovative service accessible to everyone.

About the role:

As our backend engineer at Stasher you'll be involved in building systems that support new client-facing features as well as working to improve our internal tools and systems. Your day might range from working on our core API, to planning a new host dashboard and managing/mentoring junior engineers.

We're looking for someone with a strong overall development background to help act as the bridge between business and tech. This means you'll have a lot of responsibility and autonomy - including not just development but tech hiring and product development. You should have experience with, and a love for, building scalable back end systems and beautiful front end ones. Ideally you'll have actually built a few in your time. A solid understanding of React or other MVC style frameworks and Python

Essential: 

- Love for crafting neat and well-tested code. 

- Comfortable to hit the ground running with our stack - backend in Python (flask) and frontend is in React. 

- Can strike a good balance between quality and quantity of work. 

- Some experience managing product development and hiring processes. 

- 3-5+ years experience working within a wider development team. 

- Have an opinion on development processes and infrastructure that's appropriate for a budding scale up.

Desirable: 

- Experience at a scale-up 

- Open-source contributions.