Location: Austin,Texas,United States
Job Summary
Space Chimp needs positive hard-working, self-motivated, creative and resourceful Freelance Python Developer for our elite creative and technical freelance community.
As a Space Chimp Freelance Python Developer, you will work directly with companies to help them achieve their goals. You must be up to date with evolving Developer best practices and have experience implementing successful strategies. You must have experience working directly with customers and delivering amazing work.
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
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Integration of data storage solutions including: databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
Skills And Qualifications
- Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework {{such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack}}
- 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
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages {{such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack}}
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
- Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- 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
- Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN
About Space Chimp
Space Chimp brings the best of talent agencies and freelance networks together to provide a new innovative way to hire the best creative and technical talent in the world from our exclusive network.
Working with Space Chimp means doing what you love. It means working on projects when you want, with who you want. We hire trailblazers, hackers and pioneers. We want people who can solve challenging problems, make a real impact, and help build amazing brands for our customers.
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Education
Bachelor's or Masters degree
Additional Requirements:
- 3+ Years Experience
- Experience working with clients
- Desire to learn and apply new and emerging technologies
- Personality - Doer, Desire to Please
- Good communication skills
- Verified proof of quality work
- Verified understanding of tools and best practices
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