General Overview:

At ThinkOnward, we're more than a company—we're a global community of experts and problem solvers. Our mission? To inspire and activate our community, uniting their passion, wisdom, and creativity to cleverly solve complex geoscience and data science challenges. Together, we equip our talented community with cutting-edge tools, data, and resources. We specialize in pushing boundaries, fostering collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions that accelerate decisions.

Our three core offerings are helping solve some of the energy industry's biggest challenges.

Projects:create pathways to accelerate results for our clients. We vet and engage specialized talent within our community on flexible, rewarding exploration and energy projects. Our geoscience community is driving innovation further and faster, pushing boundaries and redefining what's achievable.
Challenges: allow our community to test their skills and compete in global data science competitions. By making data science challenges available to our community, we can quickly tackle complex energy problems head-on.
Innovation Lab: is a collaborative space where we bring all the pieces of the ThinkOnward ecosystem together to deliver impactful innovations for our customers. The convergence of science, data, and tools allows us to identify, research, and cultivate revolutionary approaches, concepts, and ideas to solve our customers' most pressing challenges.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. In this role, you will be working on projects that make a tremendous impact for those solving problems in the Geoscience exploration space. You will utilize Python, GQL, NodeJS to build REST API’s, perform intelligent search and analysis, and enable business capabilities for partners. As a member of the team, you will share knowledge, relentlessly problem solve, and quickly learn our existing infrastructure, offering ideas for enhancements to support key business initiatives.

What You’ll Do:

Perform all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development, testing, and production support
Design and implement product features including reusable components, frameworks and libraries in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
Coordinate with front-end web development and other development teams in order to produce an end-to-end user experience
Write well designed, testable and efficient code by using software development best practices
Stay up-to-date with latest standards, technologies, frameworks or trends
Mentor and support the backend engineering team

What you’ll bring:

Minimum 5 years of related work experience in an agile environment
Working experience in and deep knowledge of Python, Docker, and Databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, etc.)
Experience with Django/DRF
Deep functional knowledge or hands on experience integrating with REST APIs
Experience with Flask or other API service frameworks
Amazon AWS Experience
Working experience in Kubernetes a plus
Working experience with TypeScript and GQL a plus
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform)
A solid understanding of latest security and performance concerns
Experience solving complex business problems
AWS Sagemaker experience is a bonus
Self-accountability in a remote working environment
Uphold to our company core values

Experience:

5+ years in backend programming with at least 1 year with Python/Django
2+ years coding REST APIs
Experience with git and Agile processes

Time Commitment / Travel Requirements

Full-time
Preferred location: Austin, Remote for the right candidate
Up to 10% travel may be required

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