Careers
We’re building tools to connect friends and communities around the world to share with each other.
Our fully remote and globally distributed team lives the lifestyle we’re creating. Come create the future with us.
Principal Back-End Engineer
Full-time | Remote
Please send your application to work@myplace.co
MyPlace Story
In 2019, Zach Bell created a no-code website over a long weekend to make his two places available to a small circle of friends. His friends asked if they could add their homes and one thing led to another and that squarespace site ended up on the cover of the travel section of NYT during a global pandemic and was called the Raya of Homesharing.
Thousands of internet strangers reached out to see if they could access the site to share their homes with their own friends. At that moment we realized that many more people would make their houses available to their friends if they didn't have to offer them as public rentals. By connecting friends and private groups - MyPlace enables sharing that wouldn't otherwise happen on public rental markets.
Our Team
Our team of leaders in community and technology have been building global, high impact, online and offline communities and tech products for decades. Co-Founder & CTO Rameet Chawla is MyPlace's user number 2 and leads a top notch, lean technology team.
How we do it
At MyPlace, you'll be joining a globally distributed fully remote team of entrepreneurs and industry experts who have successfully built and launched multiple companies and products over the years. Slack is home, Zoom is our living room, having strong Wi Fi is a necessity.
Principal Back-End Engineer
The MyPlace platform is a community of like-minded travelers across the globe who share their places within a trusted network, and we’re looking for a Back-End Engineer with Python experience. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side services for our home-sharing network. You will also be responsible for advising integration of front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. MyPlace is on a mission to help you share your home with people you trust and currently facilitates the sharing of hundreds of private places globally.
Requirements
Responsibilities
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
- Implementing database queries and mapping them to an object model
- Following a DevOps mindset to integrate with our CI/CD and owning availability
Skills and Qualifications
- 8+ years experience with Python, with knowledge of at least Django
- Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Familiarity with SQL databases and basic DB best practices
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
- Able to monitor and build applications in AWS
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Familiarity with Neo4j and basic graph queries
- Experience building social networking platforms
- Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
MyPlace team members are also
- We are entrepreneurial in spirit and maintain a positive and inquisitive outlook towards problems.
- We are all self starters who help each other.
- We are empathetic and communicative, if something's up-we talk about it and care about each other.
- We are passionate about what we do. Life's too short not to be.
- We are naturally diverse and inclusive.
- We are kind humans.
- We respect each other's time and we plus each other's work.
The specifics
- This is a FULL TIME position starting immediately.
- One month probationary period, competitive compensation.
- Fully remote work from wherever you want, ideal candidates, UK EU East Coast USA
- Local and nomadic insurance.
- Unlimited PTO.
- WFH stipend, quarterly, my place, co working trips to amazing locations around the world.
- We are fully built to support the lifestyle we enable as a product.
Apply now
If this role resonates with you, email us at work@myplace.co as this 🚀 is in liftoff mode!
Not quite the right fit for you? Perhaps you know someone who would be? Sharing is caring so feel free to send them our way. We appreciate you.
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