Backend Engineer

LXT is an emerging leader in AI training data to power intelligent technology for global organizations. In partnership with an international network of contributors, LXT collects and annotates data across multiple modalities with the speed, scale, and agility required by the enterprise. Our global expertise spans over 145 countries and more than 1,000 language locales. Founded in 2010, LXT is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with a presence in the United States, UK, Egypt, India, Turkey, and Australia. The company serves customers in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. 

We are hiring a Back End Engineer who will work closely with our engineering, operations, and product teams to build the most secure, cutting-edge data annotation tools and platforms.

Key responsibilities & duties:

• Design, develop and test new products, while maintaining the existing ones.

• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends in software and cloud solutions.

• Ensure high code and design quality that fulfills business requirements and good design aspects (scalability, fault tolerance).

• Design and implement solutions to protect against common security vulnerabilities

• Directly involved with the Product team to understand Requirements.

• Help the team to adopt modern software engineering practices, like Scrum, and be an active player in the Agile ceremonies.

Qualifications:

• From 1 to 2 years of experience in programming for the web.

• Solid understanding of Python for web applications

• Experience with Django, Flask or other Python web frameworks

• Experience with both Relational and NoSQL databases

• Good understanding of web servers (Apache, Nginx) and essential configurations

• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and complexity

• Passionate to optimize the performance bottlenecks and large-scale deployments.

• Familiarity with Git and team workflows.

• Ability to deliver tasks independently, or with minimum support.

• Professional level written and spoken English.

• Familiarity with any of the cloud platforms (Azure, GCP or Amazon)

• Familiarity with CI/CD, containerization, and container orchestration tools

• Familiar with Agile project management methodologies.

• Familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 Web Security Vulnerabilities and their mitigation.

Additional information:

LXT is an equal opportunity employer and ensures that no applicant is subject to less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, color, nationality, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependents, or physical or mental disability. Any hiring decision is made on the basis of skills, qualifications, and experiences.

We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share but also by how we positively impact people, society, and the planet.