Full-Stack Software Engineer - Python

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We are looking for a hardworking Software Engineer to help craft, develop and deploy software for our solutions. The successful candidate will be able to build high-quality, innovative and fully performant software in compliance with top quality coding standards and technical design. Help to drive better working practices and become a valued member of the engineering department!

Key accountabilities and measures

Collaboratively solves problems; communicates technical decisions through tech-talks and white-boarding sessions

Can work completely independently, without having to rely on other ream members to make progress

Help on-board new team members, providing coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues

Responsible for participating in the recruitment process in their field, including sitting on interview panels, and reviewing technical tests

Evangelizes clean, quality code within the team!

Develop and improve our bespoke machine learning models, solving various classification, regression, predation and clustering problems

High level of engagement when architecting and developing new software. Constantly looking at challenging the status quo, and improving our platform

Takes accountability for the technical quality of team's output as a whole, both through code review and through continuous architectural and system design review of output generated as part of new feature development

Drives engineering conversations. Always speaks with confidence and is seen as an inspiring leader by the team!

Actively seeks to work with the wider technology organization, engages in multi-functional engineering forums and displays genuine interest to learn more about the big picture of our platforms

Takes ownership of the team's backlog

Takes full accountability of the technical state of the product. From development, over deployment and into operational mode

Consults business partners on the best approach for delivering complicated feature, both in how it can be split and sequenced, and in terms of potential improvement to the functional requirements

Senior developers help drive engineering sessions, and naturally put themselves forward for meaningful tasks

Key skills

Crucial skills:

Able to demonstrate 5+ years of proven experience in software engineering, which provided exposure to a wide array of system types

Holds a degree in a relevant field

Experienced developing REST, GraphQL or gRPC based microservices

Exposure to frameworks like aiohttp, Tornado, or Twisted

Experienced level in Python, in-depth knowledge of python 3+

Experienced with asyncio

Strong understanding of software testing in general, understands the differences between unit, integration and acceptance testing

Has an interest in mathematics and is a good problem solver

Understands the DD's. TTD, BDD and ATDD

Good understanding of functional programming

Experienced working within a cloud environment, and is comfortable provisioning IaaS and PaaS services within such an environment

Strong understanding of containerisation (preferably Kubernetes)

Have delivering end-to-end web-applications within a product team following the DevOps methodology, and thus are comfortable deploying and maintaining all infrastructural and application services required by the web-application within a cloud environment

Experience working within an Agile environment such as Scrum or Kanban

Specialist understanding of software architecture and design principles (e.g. OO, DRY, SOLID)

Experience across the stack, have solved problems ranging from the front end, to the backend

Experience with distributed version controls systems like Git

Experience with pair programming

Experience working with CI tools (Concourse, Jenkins)

Desirable skills:

Experience working within a Continuous Delivery environment

Contributions towards open source software or coordinate or speak at software-related meetup groups