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Backend Services Engineer
Scanline VFX
Vancouver, BCFull Time Job
As a Backend Services Engineer, you will support the team by developing, deploying and maintaining back-end services. You will leverage your extensive knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, containerized build and deployment pipelines to help define best practices and enable other developers to contribute to our suite of service APIs. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable writing RESTful API's in python as spinning up services in docker containers, and has a strong desire to build useful foundations for other team members to build upon.
Key Responsibilities
• Architect, design, build and deploy complex services and APIs to be used by other parts of the VFX pipeline and development team
• Gather requirements across large collaboration efforts that span multiple departments and/or disciplines
• Write technical briefs and user documentation
• Partner with software development leadership and pipeline team to identify and schedule tasks
Minimum Qualifications
• Expert in Python development
• Experience designing and developing services and API's in a scalable and maintainable way
• Familiarity with automated build and deployment systems in Gitlab or similar
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems
• Knowledge of SQL and ability to author schemas
Preferred Qualifications
• Familiarity with VFX Pipelines and production needs
• Experience with event queuing and consumption services such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
$120,000 - $180,000 a year
This salary range is specific to applicants applying to our position in Vancouver, BC. To determine your base salary, we consider your qualifications, skills, and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary outside of this range and will also be dependent on your location.
Come as you are
We are committed to ensuring fair and equal treatment of your application. When you apply for a role with us, you will receive consideration based solely on your qualifications.
We will only consider applicants based in British Columbia, or those willing to relocate.
Salary/Benefits
$120,000.00 - 180,000.00 per year