Job Description
Python Software Engineer
My client are a leading Digital eCommerce marketplace platform company who have their European Headquarters based in Central Brighton. They also have offices in New York and Berlin, and they are looking for a Python Software Engineer to join their team of over 500 people working remotely and with 2 days per week in their beautiful, hi-tech Brighton offices.
As a Python Software Engineer you will be building Python server applications in a service-oriented architecture and deploying them to Kubernetes.
A keen investment in technology is at the forefront of this company’s mission with a clear vision of what their eCommerce products should be. They take a cloud native approach to development and infrastructure with lots of room for experimentation and improvement. They pride themselves in fostering a culture of quality and openness within the team.
This role is based two days per week in their high-tech offices in Brighton, with a team of co-located skilled engineers and product professionals.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and implement Python web services in Django and Flask
Maintain and extend existing Python web services based on new feature
requirements and business needs
Collaborate with Frontend Engineers and Test Automation Engineers to ensure integrations with APIs are correct and complete
Document your APIs so they can be consumed downstream by the Frontend and Test Automation teams as well as Data Analytics teams.
Skills and experience in some of the following would be ideal:
Strong experience with Python development
Experience with the Django framework & ORM
Experience managing Git workflows
Understanding of Relational Databases, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Experience with Docker both building and running images
Experience working in an Agile / Scrum team
Comfortable with working outside of your main discipline in order to collaborate across your Scrum team
This is a very exciting software engineering role and will suit a developer who has a strong love of open source technology and would like to work for a genuinely innovative and caring technology company