Senior Back End Engineer – Python

The Role:

Senior Back End Engineer – Python

Hybrid – 1 day a week on site

Brighton

£45k to £60k (dependent on experience)

An exciting visual commerce platform company situated in Brighton is looking for a Senior Back End Engineer. You will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining new and current features throughout the entire product life cycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

• Participating actively in planning and estimation sessions, using your knowledge and experience to assist the team in resolving complex situations.
• Writing Python code that is reusable and maintained.
• Examining the Python code of other team members.
• Developing and managing Serverless MicroServices.
• Improving and expanding our current Python and Django codebase.
• Becoming a trusted expert in the company’s ecosystem.

Key Requirements:

Requirements

• An expert in a variety of technologies.
• Always taking the initiative in order to improve our systems.
• Knowledgeable on the most recent and cutting-edge open-source software.
• A excellent teacher and mentor, you should be able to confidently manage your own time as well as the time of your junior team members.
• Capable of explaining, at the appropriate level of technicality, why a particular approach is good or bad and being able to back this up with data.
• An outstanding technical communicator that enjoys assisting others in understanding a problem and improving their own skill set.
• Capable of discussing sophisticated technical concerns with non-technical people.
• Empathy and comprehension of team and end-customer requirements.

Essential Skills

• Demonstrable experience as a Back End Engineer (5+ years).
• Expert knowledge of Python.
• Expert Database knowledge, both Relational and noSQL.
• Excellent communication and writing skills (English).
• AWS experience.
• Line management experience and coaching of more junior team members.

For a full consultation on this role please send your CV to Arc IT Recruitment.