Senior Python Developer

Location: South East London, gb

Job Description

My client, based in London, is looking for a Senior Python Developer. Please apply for full details.

INTRO 

We are looking for a Senior Python/Django Developer to work with us to build our platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work in an exciting, early-stage startup in a senior role within our growing Engineering team and be supported in taking ownership of key parts of the product.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Playing a crucial role in designing and building out our marketplace platform 
• Shipping and taking ownership of impactful new features and functionality 
• Peer Reviewing

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN 

• Friendly atmosphere 
• Positive management 
• Challenging problems 
• Ping pong table 
• Work with latest technologies 
• Get to participate in architectural and technological decisions

REQUIRED 

• 2 years+ commercial experience in Python 
• Experience working with a web application framework (Django, Flask, ...) 
• A strong focus on quality and a desire to get things done the best possible way 
• A desire to test ALL the things 
• Eagerness to get things shipped and being used as quickly and efficiently as possible. 
• Experience in architecting and building scalable web applications

WOULD BE AWESOME 

• Development & consumption of HTTP APIs 
• JavaScript frameworks & libraries such as AngularJS 
• Experience scaling a web application by orders of magnitude 
• DevOps experience (repeatable deployments, automated releases, CI/CD, infrastructure as code) 
• Experience developing financial applications for use by financial institutions

TECH STACK 

• PostgreSQL 
• Django 
• Jenkins 
• Ansible 
• AngularJS (1 & 2) 
• Python3 
• Celery 
• Git