Django/Python Developer

Django/Python Developer

Salary: $74,000 - $175,000 Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote

Position Overview

Resource Innovations is seeking an experienced Django/Python Developer to join our growing Customer Engagement engineering team. This team develops personalized digital platforms to support the delivery of E-Commerce and retail programs. As a Django/Python Developer, you will work closely with the Lead Engineer on further developing, maintaining, and enhancing Commerce Manager, the practice's operating system, which is built using Django.

About Resource Innovations

Resource Innovations (RI) is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we continually expand our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex and interconnected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. With every step, we’re leading the charge to power change.

Resource Innovations is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, marital status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. In addition to federal law requirements, Resource Innovations complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, maintenance, and enhancement of the organization's Commerce Manager software, which powers the core E-Commerce and retail product offerings of the Customer Engagement practice.
• Collaborate with team members (e.g., project delivery staff, senior developers) to scope and design new features and applications used by our delivery staff to implement utility energy efficiency programs.
• Write Python code within a Django web framework securely and efficiently. This includes working with models, model admins, custom views, and custom Django Ninja API routes.
• Work efficiently with Git, GitHub, Heroku, and other components of our ecosystem.
• Ensure data security/privacy and protocols are established and followed based on client and company requirements.
• Make recommendations for improvements to processes and technologies.
• Document code and features in a library system, both from a developer perspective to help other developers replicate where needed and from a user perspective to help program delivery staff and users know how features work.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience writing code.
• Significant comfort level with the foundations of Python programming, intermediate level or above.
• Must have familiarity with Django and/or Flask.
• Ability to work independently once direction is set and to ask questions to avoid being stuck for extended periods.
• Ability to work quickly, both in grasping concepts and in writing and testing code.
• Ability to work in small, focused bursts on disparate tasks routinely as opposed to longer, singular tasks. This requires quick ramp up on new tasks.
• Git or other version control experience.
• Django web framework experience.
• Experience building and deploying APIs.

Preferred Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable work experience.
• Experience with Heroku, AWS, Jira, and GitHub.
• Experience with systems design fundamentals such as model architecture, Postgres schema, and more.
• Experience with developing custom functionality within the Django admin.

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