Senior Python Developer / Lead Python Developer

Senior Python Developer, Python Development Lead, Lead Backend Developer, APIs, Postgres, Remote Based, Home Working

Senior Python Developer, Python Development Lead / Lead Backend Developer required to work for a fast-growing Mobile Application Development company based in Central London. However, due to Covid-19 this can be remote based and can be based pretty much anywhere in Europe.

Our client is creating a team of technology enthusiasts who can choose the right tool for the job and prioritise creating a great product over any particular stack (language, DBs, etc.) You MUST have experience or a solid understanding of how to scale up high traffic APIs.

You will be leading a small team of developers splitting the monolith into a more micro-service oriented architecture. At the same time, you will be implementing new features to support the new needs from the business and improving the response times from the existing endpoints.

Working with this company you will:

• Build exciting new features
• Improve performance of existing features
• Create tools to help the business/content team understand the users better
• Design solutions to that can scale globally
• Lead a small team of developers

What we are looking for:

• Ability to design cloud-native solutions
• Development Team Leadership experience
• Ability to design solutions that scale up (define resources, scalable components, etc.)
• Ability to design and implement APIs
• Interest in learning new technologies (databases, languages, design techniques)
• Understanding of automation mechanism
• Interest in writing high quality code that adhere to best practices
• Enjoy decreasing the response times of the endpoints
• Being able to convert a small sentence into a product spec and coordinate the implementation

Tech stack:

Servers: Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes, EC2

Databases: Postgres, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, BigQuery

Languages: Python, Golang

Frameworks: Flask, SQLAlchemy

Other technology: SQS, Kinesis, gRPC, Protobuf, Restful APIs, Kafka, Microservices

This is a great opportunity and salary is dependent upon experience. Apply now for more details.