Django Engineer

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Django Engineer

We're currently looking for new Python Engineers to join our UK project teams to deliver complex web applications written in Python, primarily using Google Cloud and Django. You'll be developing high-profile digital products for well known clients, while working within a supportive, cross-discipline product team.

About the role:

As an Engineer, your main focus is project work, working closely with designers, coaches, product leads, and with guidance and mentoring from other members of the Engineering team. You will be assigned a representative from the Engineering team (usually a Team Engineer or Tech Community Lead) to aid your progression and help you move forward with your career at Potato.

You will join one of our friendly, supportive, proactive Agile product teams, you'll be working closely with fellow developers, designers, and other team members. Our teams are self-organising, with the freedom to define their own ways of working.

Most of our products are web-based and use Python (and occasionally Node) on the server, most often Django on Google App Engine (sometimes Firebase, AWS, or Azure). We use a mix of relational and non-relational databases, and other cloud services. We aim to strike a balance between leveraging our existing strengths and exploring new tech. While this listing focusses on Python, we try to avoid silos: our developers are encouraged to contribute to any part of a system they'd like to.

Although this is advertised as a full-time role, we're interested in applications from part-time or flexible workers.

About you:

We expect developers at Potato to be able to find creative solutions to technical problems and user needs, whilst also finding opportunities to optimise and simplify software. For this role, we're looking for someone capable of supporting, guiding and empowering teams to produce excellent software, striking the right balance between perfection and delivery. Experience with Google App Engine or Django is a plus, but not mandatory.

We're looking for someone who writes great code, but also enjoys collaborating with other disciplines in the product team to devise creative solutions to the users' needs. For this role, you should have an appreciation of the full web stack, as well as an appreciation of current trends in both backend and frontend web technologies.

You will be accountable for:

Writing clean, easy to read, and maintainable code

Finding creative solutions to technical problems and user needs, whilst also finding opportunities to optimise and simplify software

Striking the right balance between perfection and delivery

Working in a friendly, self-organising, cross-functional, Agile product team

Supporting other Engineers within the team

Collaborating closely with other disciplines such as Designers and Product Leads

Regularly working together with multiple clients and client engineers

You must have:

Proven experience building for the web using Python

Detailed knowledge and long-term experience with a backend Python framework such as Flask, Django or FastAPI

Proven experience of model design on relational and non-relational databases

Experience with Google App Engine or a similar PaaS

An understanding of security vulnerabilities and how to prevent them

A high-level understanding of frontend development

Ideally also:

Experience launching high-quality digital products

Proven experience creating secure and well-designed APIs

Proven experience building for scale: high traffic, big data, large feature sets

Proven front-end web or native app development skills

Knowledge of testing, QA tools and methodologies

Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban

Expertise in developing software in an area outside the Web (e.g. Game development, mobile development etc.)

Culture:

Working shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the best engineers, designers and product leads in town, we'll give you the freedom to manage your own work and trust you to get things done. Want to work from home occasionally? Go for it. Need to unwind with a game of pool or some studio dog cuddles? All good. Ultimately, we just want to make sure that you have everything you need to help us build the best products possible.

You'll have many opportunities for growth and learning: collaboration within teams, rotation to different products, experimentation on internal tools, involvement in new business and pitching, our Potato Talks events, mentorship, training courses, and conferences.

Inclusivity:

We want to make our hiring as inclusive as possible, this job description has been reviewed by a range of employees and has passed a neutral language check. We have also reviewed our hiring process to make sure it offers flexibility to candidates that need it.

Salary: £55k - £75k (Bands D) depending on ability.

Location: We welcome remote applications within the UK. We already have people in London, Bristol, Leeds, Portsmouth, and Bury St Edmunds.