Senior Python Engineer - Remote - Outside IR35
Our client are currently looking to hire a Senior Python Engineer who is fluent in Python, Flask, Sqlalchemy and Postgres, to join the team on a fully remote working contract basis.
In this role as an experienced Python Engineer you will have experience of running multiple different systems in production for real users. You'll work with the Product Owner, mobile development team, and other backend developers to build and improve our apps, websites and systems. Day to day your core focus will be to ensure that API infrastructure is reliable and growing to meet our business needs.
What you'll lead:
1. Shape and evolve the backend technical architecture to support product scale and complexity
2. Identify and drive improvements in performance, observability, and infrastructure
3. Lead the design of domain models aligned with evolving business needs
4. Be a go-to person for backend excellence, and improve code quality
5. Engineering centric requirement definition (user stories) and analysis
This means you must:
6. Be fluent in Python, Flask, Sqlalchemy and Postgres
7. Be able to effectively design APIs and database / object schemas
8. Know how to strike the right balance between pragmatic agile iterative development and longer term investment to manage technical debt.
9. Have a passion for well communicated designs, flows and technical implementation.
10. Have experienced, and know how to successfully manage CI/CD including deployments to production that involve database schema updates without scheduled downtime.
11. Implement new features with monitoring best practices in mind.
12. Be able to lead data centric technical conversations, highlighting design trade-offs and guide data definition.
13. Have the ability to take ownership of issues - to analyse and identify problems not faced before.
14. Communicate clearly with non-engineers (. product, ops, stakeholders)
Desirable skills:
15. Experience with AWS IAM and AWS SSO
16. Understand ELT architecture and best practices;
17. Production use of AWS Lambda
18. Architecting and implementing with GDPR / privacy by design and implementing appropriate security requirements
19. Knowledge of DNS and CDNs such as Fastly
Experience of many of the following:
20. AWS and/or Heroku
21. Using APM or similar tooling to enable prioritisation of performance and defects
22. Working on products for international audiences
23. Using analytics to guide and refine priorities
24. Collaborating with Product Owners, UX teams, and other stakeholders
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