Artem (Digis) <> Aleksandr (Twill): Backend Engineer

Date: 2025-04-03 · Duration: 44.9900016784668 min Organizer: Nader Attendees: a.kyrychenko@digiscorp.com, aleksandr@twillpayments.com, Nader

Summary

In a technical interview held between Artem and Aleksandr for a backend engineer position, Artem, a Python backend developer with 6.5 years of experience, discussed his strong background in frameworks like Flask, Django, and FastAPI, along with some exposure to JavaScript frameworks. He highlighted his commitment to testing through Test-Driven Development (TDD), emphasizing the importance of writing tests before reviewing pull requests. The interview assessed his technical knowledge in asynchronous programming, the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), Python’s implementations, and experience with ORMs and SQL queries. Additionally, they covered database management, API design concepts, cloud services utilization on AWS, and touched upon Kubernetes and CORS. The meeting concluded with Aleksandr outlining the next steps, which include scheduling a follow-up algorithmic task interview should Artem progress.

Action Items

• Aleksandr Makarov Schedule follow-up algorithmic task interview if candidate progresses (41:13)