Python Engineer at Safari Books Online (San Francisco, CA) (allows remote)
Job Description
Safari Books Online is looking for a Python software engineer who cares about building meaningful applications that enrich the personal and professional lives of our customers. Our products are found in libraries, startups, classrooms, and corporations, and help technologists learn, share knowledge, and succeed in their careers. Our latest product, Safari Flow, is aimed specifically at web professionals like our own team; it’s great fun to build something you want to use!
Our development stack is Python/Django, Backbone.js/RequireJS/jQuery, Redis, Git, and Postgres. HTML5 isn’t a buzzword for us: we were one of the first companies to develop a fully-baked offline HTML5 commercial webapp, and we’re continuing to innovate in the browser.
We have a dedication to testing (Nose, QUnit, Selenium), a strong IT and data warehouse group, and a core belief in work-life balance. We respectfully welcome both vim and emacs users.
Our core team is distributed but concentrated in our Boston Seaport and San Francisco offices. The women and men in our engineering group are life-long learners who encourage collaboration and innovation. This position reports to the Engineering Manager, and can be located at our Boston or San Francisco offices, although US-based remote candidates will also be considered.
Safari encourages all of its staff at any skill level to contribute to our technical blog. See what our developers, project managers, and designers care about most at http://blog.safariflow.com/
Skills Requirements
About Safari Books Online
As a joint venture between O'Reilly Media and Pearson Technology Group, Safari Books Online is at the forefront of providing access to a vast library of technology references, enabling hundreds of thousands of our peers and co-workers to be better at their craft.
If you want an idea of what you'll be working on, we invite you to visit and sign up for a free trial of Safari Flow
We value your time and attention. We don’t ask you to give up your life for your job, and we try not to waste your time with unnecessary overhead.
We’re proud of a proven business model built on real technical learning and professional development. Technologists use our products to make the web better every day.
We’re committed to helping our employees truly broaden their talents and ambitions. We encourage managers to learn Github and developers to understand our PL.
Joel Test score: 12 out of 12
The Joel Test is a twelve-question measure of the quality of a software team.
- Do you use source control?
- Can you make a build in one step?
- Do you make daily builds?
- Do you have a bug database?
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
- Do you have a spec?
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
- Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- Do you have testers?
- Do new candidates write code during their interview?
- Do you do hallway usability testing?
How to apply
If you are interested in building awesome knowledge tools, let us know!
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