Senior Backend Python Jobs in Portland, OR (NOW HIRING)

As a Sr. Backend Engineer, you’ll help drive Concora Credit’s Mission to enable customers to Do More with Credit – every single day.

The impact you’ll have at Concora Credit:

Join us in shaping a seamless, best-in-class credit origination experience for consumers applying for our products. As part of a fully staffed agile team, you’ll help deliver web and mobile solutions that meet the highest standards for quality, performance, security, and reliability. Your focus will be on evolving the underlying originations platform and building intuitive consumer experiences.

We hire people, not positions. That's because, at Concora Credit, we put people first, including our customers, partners, and Team Members. Concora Credit is guided by a single purpose: to help non-prime customers do more with credit. Today, we have helped millions of customers access credit. Our industry leadership, resilience, and willingness to adapt ensure we can help our partners responsibly say yes to millions more. As a company grounded in entrepreneurship, we're looking to expand our team and are looking for people who foster innovation, strive to make an impact, and want to Do More! We’re an established company with over 20 years of experience, but now we’re taking things to the next level. We're seeking someone who wants to impact the business and play a pivotal role in leading the charge for change.

As our Sr. Backend Engineer, you will:

• Deliver high-quality, secure, efficient, scalable, and reusable code that always protects customer privacy and confidentiality.
• Fully collaborate on back-end technical strategy and direction.
• Have a strong focus on quality, reliability, robust operations, and performance.
• Develop and support 3rd party integrations, frontend capabilities, and internal partner interfaces.
• Contribute across the full stack – backend, API layer, and frontend, collaborating positively and effectively across teams.
• Conduct code reviews, testing, and optimization to ensure the performance, security, and completeness of our solutions.
• Act in a lead role, taking the initiative to identify gaps, propose solutions, and embrace ownership of both personal work and team solutions.
• Partner with architects and Scrum team members to drive technical decisions in projects and provide input on our architecture, databases, and APIs.
• Extend existing system functionality based on user requirements; analyze code to identify areas for modification and maintain and support existing products.
• Consult with product managers and business analysts to define, scope, and plan new features.
• Partner with teammates to ensure solutions are delivered on time and fully meet requirements.
• Be a key participant in our agile development framework.
• Produce complete and coherent documentation.
• Stay current with tools and technologies, and test, evaluate, and recommend technologies to improve our overall solutions.
• Deliver general engineering and operational excellence.

These duties must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

We know experience comes in many forms and that many skills are transferable. If your experience is close to what we're looking for, consider applying. Diversity has made us the entrepreneurial and innovative company that we are today.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of directly relevant experience, including Epic/Story writing and elaboration, technical design, coding, testing (unit, integration, and system testing with an emphasis on creating tests for automated execution), deployment, and the creation of documentation.
• Demonstrated empathy for consumers and internal customers.
• Proficiency in C#, ASP/ASP.Net, .NET Core, RESTful API, JSON, jQuery, Python, SQL Server, No-SQL databases, and bonus points for React, Drupal/PHP, CMS (content management systems), and web services integrations.
• Experience delivering service-oriented architectural solutions on either AWS or Azure.
• Relevant experience in one or more of these technologies is desired: Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, Transactional queues, and Data Lake.
• Experience with CI/CD Pipeline systems like Azure DevOps Pipeline, Terraform, TeamCity, Jenkins, Concourse, Hudson, and Bamboo.
• Enthusiasm and expertise with rapid prototyping.
• Expertise in ensuring quality with code development, including unit and integration testing as part of code completion.
• Ability to adopt and contribute as needed to development standards. All work must be maintainable by the engineers who follow.
• Eye for customer experience, application, and data security, and code optimization.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

What’s In It For You:

• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for you and your family
• Relax and recharge with Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 6 company-observed paid holidays, plus 3 paid floating holidays
• 401k (after 90 days) plus employer match up to 4%
• Pet Insurance for your furry family members
• Wellness perks including onsite fitness equipment at both locations, EAP, and access to the Headspace App
• We invest in your future through Tuition Reimbursement
• Save on taxes with Flexible Spending Accounts
• Peace of mind with Life and AD&D Insurance
• Protect yourself with company-paid Long-Term Disability and voluntary Short-Term Disability

Concora Credit provides equal employment opportunities to all Team Members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Employment-based visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Concora Credit is an equal opportunity employer (EEO).

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