Python Full-Stack Developer

Messente builds APIs and tools for enterprise messaging and customer authentication. We help our clients send text-based business-critical notifications, reminders, and messages to any mobile phone in the world.

What will you be doing?

You will be working in a small team of five developers and you have the opportunity to work on different parts of Messente’s platform.

• Build admin interface for internal use from scratch
• Build quick prototypes to validate business ideas
• Help other teams to integrate Messente with different 3rd-party tools
• Maintain existing admin interface written in PHP

You can check our self-service platform at Messente Dashboard and and Messaging API reference documentation at API Reference.

Working in the Development team

• Working in 2-week Scrum sprints together with other developers
• Participate in the development process from start to finish:
  • analyzing the problem
  • coming up with solutions
  • building
  • code reviews
  • testing
  • releasing
• Working with other teams in Messente to build the tools they need
• Getting help from senior developers if needed

Technical

• Python-based frameworks
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis
• DevOps: Docker, Ansible
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana
• Maintaining old Admin Dashboard written in CakePHP

You’ll be thriving in this role if you:

Must-have

• experience with Python frameworks (Multi-Page Application)
• good command of HTML, CSS, Javascript
• experience testing your code with unit-tests
• good command of SQL
• taking ownership of the projects and features you are working on
• some experience with PHP in the past
• fluent in English in text and speech
• strong attention to detail and know how to plan your time
• live or work near to Estonian timezone (+-3h)

Nice-to-have

• having used Docker or other containers for development
• experience with Ansible & devops
• remote work experience

If this sounds like a great opportunity, please send your CV along with a cover letter (in English) to career@messente.com. We have found cover letters to be very helpful so please tell us about why you are interested in joining Messente, what motivates you about working in full-stack development and why this specific role.

What happens after I apply?

We will promise to be responsive – so once you've applied to us, you'll always get answers to your e-mails and more feedback about what we thought or what’s going to happen next.

• First, we go through your CV/LinkedIn profile and your cover letter.
• If we find there’s a good match, we'll set a time to have a quick chat to get to know each other better.
• The shorter get-to-know meeting is followed by a technical conversation with one of our developers.
• If all goes well then we’ll try out working together with fully paid 1 test week on an actual codebase.
• After the test week, we will address any of your questions and make a final decision.

Messente is a fast-growing profitable startup based in Estonia providing dead simple mobile messaging and 2-step verification APIs. In other words – we help large international businesses to send notifications to their customers and we help online services to protect their users.

We have clients from all over the world and from a wide range of industries, including web applications, banks, hotels, airlines, retail chains, consumer brands and other businesses coming from a wide range of industries.