Desired Skills and Experience

  • Bug fixes in the platform at various stages of the stack. You’ll be assigned these in a logical way to get you up to speed with the platform and business model.
  • Isolated feature requests. You’ll be assigned these in the same manner as bug fixes. They’ll be intended to get you up to speed with the bigger picture.
  • Implement automated tests.
  • Implement solutions to outstanding devops problems to make our deployment smoother.
  • Profile areas of the code that execute inefficiently, and implement a more efficient strategy when possible.
  • Gather requirements from operations and clients.
  • Design features and MVP prototypes to fulfill requirements.
  • Whiteboard prototypes and negotiate feature implementation options based on rough time estimations.
  • Deployment automation planning and implementation for any new technologies or architecture introduced.
  • If you are interested, you may have the opportunity to interface with clients and gain direct feedback about customer issues and needs.
  • Experience developing high quality Python and Django applications in a Linux/Ubuntu environment.
  • Comfortable on a Unix command line. We use no Windows environments. You’ll be expected to develop on Ubuntu, to match our server environments.
  • Experience with web development technologies, like HTML, Javascript, CSS, and AJAX, as well as libraries and frameworks built upon these like jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB administration.
  • Experience with Git source control.
  • Experience with Celery, RabbitMQ or other asynchronous processing processing frameworks.
  • Experience with AWS services such as EC2, RDS and S3.
  • Contributions to open source projects (Github/Bitbucket/etc).
  • Competitive base salary
  • Medical, dental
  • 401(k) savings/retirement plan
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Life, short-term, long-term disability insurance, and AD&D
  • We are a growing procurement consulting firm based in Center City Philadelphia
  • Our platform provides our clients the ability to view our analysis and insights through visually appealing dashboards and reports in the cloud
  • Dryden was founded in 2002, but are constantly and actively evolving what we do and how we do it
  • We offer tremendous opportunity for individual and team growth

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