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Why Protolabs?
We are the leaders in digital manufacturing. We hire doers, makers, and creative thinkers who tackle our roles with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our culture is centered around meaningful work that brings new and innovative products to market at unprecedented speeds. We are a diverse team that comes from all walks of life and take pride in our team who is smart, genuine, humble, and passionate about what we do. It’s our people who fuel our creativity and make our culture feel like home.
We’re looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join the Product Operations team at Protolabs, where our mission is to revolutionise our workflow and drive efficiency as we scale the business.
Our Product Operations team is the backbone of the order lifecycle. We are responsible for streamlining processes - from allocating orders to our manufacturing partners, navigating production stages, managing quality controls, orchestrating shipping and ensuring timely payments. Our work is critical to maintaining seamless operations and customer satisfaction.
The team’s current mission is to focus on high-value complex orders and ensure they are consistently completed on time and with no quality issues. We use varied approaches here – from optimising internal and external workflows, all the way to using AI/ML models to automate complicated manual and error prone tasks.
We are looking for a pragmatic problem solver who will thrive in a dynamic environment and can take ownership of the business problem, not just the technical solution.
Sounds interesting?
What’ll you do:
- Own features end to end, working cross-functionally with stakeholders to find elegant solutions to complex and interesting problems
- Build APIs, integrate with eventing systems, and focus on scaling our systems as business volume increases
- Improve the quality of our products by implementing best practices in testing and observability
- Collaborate with our Backend guild to set standards and improve the state of our backend systems
What it takes :
- 5+ years of experience building web applications and backend services
- Proficiency in Python for designing, developing, testing and monitoring production systems
- Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD environments
- Experience working in an agile team with product managers and designers
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Deep understanding of event-based architectures
- Familiarity with Angular
- Backend: Python 3.11+ with FastAPI, Flask and SQLAlchemy (we also use Celery with RabbitMQ for background tasks and KNative for eventing)
- Frontend: AngularJS v15 with Typescript
- DevOps: Kubernetes on AWS (using EKS), Terraform, Github Actions
- Data: PostgreSQL (on RDS), Redis (using Elasticache)
- Integrations: Retool and Zapier
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