Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

Responsibilities

• Work on tickets related to new features, improvements and the ongoing operations of our product.
• Write software to a high standard of maintainability and security in accordance with our coding standards.
• Implement automated tests, continual deployment, and other appropriate techniques to achieve reliable software.
• Maintain a high level of professional skill. Keep up to date with relevant technologies and industry directions.
• Proactively work with our product team to understand requirements and future product directions. Implement features in accordance with these commercial priorities.
• Collaborate with other team members and other teams on the design, implementation and operation of our product.
• Mentor other engineers and help with interviewing and recruitment.

What you’ll need

• Bachelors/Masters in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years relevant experience.
• Experience working in Python developing web APIs
• Experience working on a cloud or SaaS product
• Must be an excellent hands-on developer experienced with web API architecture (e.g. REST).
• Distributed system availability/reliability/performance design experience.
• Message queues (e.g SQS).
• Databases (e.g. postgresql).
• Experience with SaaS/Cloud technologies e.g. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudformation, Terraform, etc.
• Automated testing, we use unit and other automated tests extensively