Role: Python/Django Developer
Location: Hybrid (London/Home)
Salary: £60k to £75k
We are seeking an experienced backend developer responsible for building and extending our API with Django Rest Framework. A commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential.
The Perfect Candidate
- Strong proficiency with Python 4yrs+, Django Rest Framework, and Pandas
- Previous experience building scalable REST APIs
- Proficient in working with SQL and NoSQL database solutions such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Previous experience with popular libraries such as rq, django-haystack, pymongo, pytest
- Basic DevOps skills - bash, shell, provisioning solutions like SaltStack
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Large data set ingestion
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- A knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
- Understand complex concepts in solving problems
- Suggest workflow process improvements and sustain self-organized agile teams
- Mentoring other members of the team
- Maintaining active communication with the customer to clarify the requirements and translate them into technical user stories
- A good leader, empathic and working independent
- Able to assume different project roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team Member
- Excellent written and speaking English skills
Your Responsibilities
- Analysing requirements and designing new functionality.
- Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues.
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
- Keep clear documentation of the database setup and architecture.
