Senior Software Engineer (Python)

As a Senior Software Engineer at EclecticIQ, you’ll help build a large scale web app that helps cyber threat analysts to perform faster, better and deeper investigations.

You’ll work closely together with Product Team and other Engineers inside Feature Teams to solve challenging problems and deliver valuable features. Within the Back-end engineering team you’ll get to teach, learn, pair, review code, do technical design and implement best practices.

We are building our application with REST API built using Python 3 on top of frameworks like Flask, SQLAlchemy, and Celery. It relies on data stores like PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch. The codebase consists of several modules/libraries spread over the application. There is a web-based UI for end-users but also a lot of intensive data processing is happening in the background.

As an ideal candidate, you have relevant experience working on large, robust, high-performance applications using similar technologies; you can responsibly build on and improve them.

Responsibilities

• Independently build new product features and resolve issues in an Agile environment.
• Deliver work with a DevOps approach (you run the code you wrote) and compliant with the team's Definition Of Done.
• Profile Python code, write unit and integration tests, take part in performance testing.
• Perform code reviews and participate in technical design sessions with the rest of the Engineering team.
• Closely collaborate with fellow Engineers and Product team members to design and implement product solutions that meet our quality criteria.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ professional experience.
• 3+ years’ experience building robust applications and/or products.
• Understanding design patterns in use for modern Python development.
• Appreciation for clean code, thorough testing, and API design.
• Critical and innovative thinking.
• Demonstrable track record working with the following Python frameworks: Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery.
• Demonstrable track record working with the following data stores: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch.
• Demonstrable experience working with the following technologies: Linux, Git, SQL, REST, JSON, XML, HTTP.
• Design data models for complex data structures are advantageous 
• Complex multi-tier application profiling is a plus
• Experience with NoSQL databases, in general, is a plus
• Familiarity with AWS and cloud computing concepts, in general, is an advantage 
• Familiarity with DevOps and automation tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Hashicorp suite of tools, and other tools is a plus

Benefits

We offer a full-time position with a market conform salary. Besides our 24 annual holidays, we have a remote-friendly work environment.

On top of that, we have a hip, home-like working place in the heart of Amsterdam where you can work with (and build) the latest technology. Our teams are humble, effective, transparent and life long learners - while we love experiments and research, we are not afraid to make decisions. We are backed by international investors to build the future together!

About Eclectic IQ

EclecticIQ (2014) enables intelligence-powered cybersecurity for government organizations, commercial enterprises, and MSSPs. We develop analyst-centric products and services that align our clients’ cybersecurity focus on their threat reality. The result is intelligence-led security, improved detection and prevention, and cost-efficient security investments.

Our flagship product EclecticIQ Platform is based on open standards STIX and TAXII and enables consolidation, analysis, integration and collaboration on intelligence from multiple sources - whether they are freely available, commercial or part of industry partnerships. We tightly integrated our solutions with our customers’ IT security controls and systems.

EclecticIQ Platform gathers intelligence from diverse sources, enables collaborative internal workflows, integrates with enterprise security technologies, and supports secure exchanges with external information-sharing communities.

EclecticIQ operates globally with offices in Amsterdam, London, Reston (US) and Moldova. At EclecticIQ every employee makes a difference.

Learn more at www.eclecticiq.com

In case of any questions or queries, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition and Selection specialist on brenda@eclecticiq.com.

The selection process may include security screening and/or background checks.