About the role
Responsibilities:
- End-to-end delivery work across the full software development life cycle: requirement gathering, analysis, development, review and testing.
- Build scalable services, designing applications and services on modern, cutting-edge technology.
- API engineering: build and maintain extensible, performant APIs.
- Own and code a feature from end to end and drive it independently to production.
- Estimation and planning: carry out requirement gathering and ETA assessment; groom and create stories with the team.
- Architecture and standards lead architectural decisions and implementation; establish and promote coding guidelines, best practices and design standards.
- Collaboration and innovation interact with cross-functional teams and bring innovation to the product.
Requirements:
- Python: strong hands-on Python with solid object-orientated programming, writing unit tests and debugging/improving application performance.
- REST APIs (Django Ninja): building performant REST APIs using Django Ninja on the Django framework (Django REST Framework).
- Back-end engineering: 6+ years as a back-end / full-stack engineer with general-purpose programming languages.
- Quality discipline unit testing and code-review rigour.
- Education: Full-time IT / engineering degree, preferably computer science.
Nice to have:
- Kubernetes: deploying and running applications on Kubernetes.
- Observability Datadog or an equivalent monitoring tool (Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, etc).
- SQL: working knowledge of SQL.
- Client-side exposure: some front-end / client-side application experience.