Senior Backend Engineer

The Senior Backend Engineer is responsible for the technical delivery of their scrum team. This includes ensuring a high standard of work, in line with our scalability and performance goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Design features by working closely with Product and customers to translate real-world problems into product and technical specifications, ensuring that no development work is started until this is done to a high level of quality.
• Mentor the team to ensure that everyone knows what they are doing, providing technical expertise as-and-when needed.
• Lead technology improvements by using data to identify areas of the product which are under-performing, designing the solutions, advocating for the changes, and overseeing their implementation.
• Contribute to process improvements by finding bottlenecks or pain-points in the team, and proposing solutions.
• Work closely with the analytics and blockchain teams to ensure that changes made to the backend services will not break integrations with their services; DevOps to deploy new services into different environments; and QA to maintain a high level of software quality.
• Write software, fix bugs, perform code reviews, and generally keep doing development work. It is vital that the team lead is close to the coal-face.

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer, at least 3 years experience as a senior.
• Extensive Python experience, working with Cloud-based technologies
• Demonstrable experience designing and building APIs.
• Experience with Python web frameworks.
• Proven ability in leadership skills.
• Rust is a lovely-to-have.

• Excellent knowledge of Python.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong understanding of types and type systems, and skills in mypy, Rust, or other typed languages.
• Strong understanding of Linux and Docker.
• Well-versed in best-practice engineering – version control systems, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL, or other relational databases.
• Good understanding of monitoring and logging tools.
• Awareness of Kubernetes.