Senior Django Developer (work from home)

Description

Remote / Telecommuting opportunity for a Senior Django Developer

Catchafire is looking for a passionate, highly skilled, senior python engineer, with a social conscience, to work on world-changing software. Lots of companies claim they are trying to change the world for the better. The difference is this: we mean it, and we're doing it.

Catchafire matches professionals who want to give their skills to nonprofits and social enterprises that need their help. Catchafire pro bono professionals have donated many thousands of hours to provide over 11 million dollars in services to social good organizations. You'll help us continue to scale so that we can touch the lives of more and more talented professionals by enabling them to give to social good organizations in need.

You'll work on challenging problems, from your house, all while making the world a better place.

Key Skills:

5+ years experience coding in Python

5+ years experience using the Django (or similar) web framework

5+ years SQL coding experience

3+ years experience coding JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Experience scaling and administering full web application stacks

Eagerness to learn and work at all levels of responsibility

Working knowledge of source code control and unit testing

Valuable Experience:

Experience working in the social good sector

Project leadership and management duties

Experience scaling with MySQL and/or Django

Experience using the Fabric for devops tasks

Experience using a DVCS (Mercurial preferred)

Experience with Apache, nginx, WSGI, South, caching systems

If you're truly awesome, and have some characteristic that you believe will compensate for lacking one of the key skills, just explain it in your submission

Contact
Contact us, mention Senior Django Developer in the subject. We're looking forward to hearing from you! No recruiters. Only *individual* candidates.