Desired Skills and Experience
- DevOps-centric: AWS + Docker
- Performance: Database query tuning experts and application profiling
- QA: Testing engineers, load testing bots, integration tests and/or “fuzzing”
- Security: Hardening, in-house pen testing, establishing and enforcing protocols
- Be an expert in Python and Django, as well as most of the following supporting languages, technologies and frameworks: Django-Rest-Framework, Celery, Docker, PostgreSQL, Amazon EC2 + ECS.
- Be highly skilled in SQL, Linux command line and git.
- Be familiar with modern frontend development practices including React, Redux and Sagas (our frontend engineers build all customer-facing pages, but you may need to implement some admin tools)
- Be confident communicating with technical peers to build clearly defined requirements and convert these into robust technical architecture.
- Be experienced in producing high-quality technical specifications, documentation and accurately estimating the time required for the build.
- Be confident in providing tests to support code, contributing to testing strategies and providing high-quality user training documentation.
- Have experience producing high-quality code to budget, demonstrating commercial awareness.
- Have the ability to operate independently as technical lead on small projects.
- Be confident contributing to proposals and pitching successfully.
- Remain up to date with state-of-the-art developments in your software field and share your knowledge with the wider team.
- Be confident keeping projects on track through strong personal project management skills, collaboration and supporting other team members.
- Support colleagues (teaching, coaching, line managing, mentoring, reviewing and improving code).
- An opportunity to work on a highly-visible, technically advanced project with a world-class team of industry leaders.
- Performance-related bonuses.
- Travel to occasional technical conferences (optional).
- Competitive salary, depending on experience.
- 15 days annual leave.
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