Senior Python Engineer (Remote in UK)

A Day In The Life…

Reporting to our Lead Software Engineer, you will join a small but highly productive team of talented engineers working on our newly developed Python platform. You will have the opportunity to work on internal tooling, implement new features proposed by our growth team, and expand our use of industry standards and design patterns. Additionally, you will ensure that the team adopts best practices. The role offers a great opportunity to learn with a structured career path and plenty of flexibility through remote working.

This role will focus on web application development for an ecommerce system, undertaking the business logic and backend apis for the customer facing website, internal tools and recurring billing system.

We move and think fast so it’s important that you are able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and are happy to roll up your sleeves to do whatever it takes to support the team in every way possible. There’s an opportunity to have an impact with lots of autonomy in a great team. If that sounds exciting - we would love you to join our pack!

Your day to day will look a little bit like this…

• Take on more of a leading role within the team, mentoring any junior developers, enforcing best practices, emphasise code quality etc.
• Morning stand-up and peer reviews.
• Developing high quality, tested and scalable Python micro services for AWS.
• Collaborating with the tech lead to recommend solutions that satisfy functional and non-functional needs.
• Championing and sharing best practices to improve team and code over time.
• Informing others of blockers and communicate technical limitations or implementation misuse.

What You Need…

• Significant experience working as an engineer on Python and related backend technology
• A deep understanding of Python and its ecosystem, as well as a track record of successfully completing complex projects and making technical decisions.
• Excel at problem-solving with the ability to tackle complex and challenging problems independently.
• Experience building quality, and highly scalable backend systems
• Excellent understanding and experience of programming languages and paradigms
• Enthusiastic self-starter that will be able to work in a fast paced environment
• Proven ability to quickly build and maintain authentic relationships and trust with individuals with excellent communication skills

• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, including non-technical members of the organization.

• Any additional experience with the following tech would be advantageous: Fast API, REST Apis, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Microservices, API Gateway, Lambda, ECR, Terraform and AWS Cloud
• Electric Vehicle Scheme – Employees sacrifice salary in return for a new electric car, typically saving 30-40% of costs through income and tax and