Python Developer
London-based Python developer role focused on building APIs and distributed asynchronous systems: designing and developing features, fixing urgent production issues, and advising on technical problems. Core stack is Python (OOP), SQL/Oracle, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, message brokers, and Azure/AWS with DevOps/CI-CD.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Able to work independently within defined projects/work streams
- Strong understanding of large-scale application architecture and design
- Strong communication skills, especially collaborating with external business stakeholders
- API development using Python as OOP
- Experience designing distributed asynchronous systems to avoid data conflicts, in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines
- Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB and Oracle
- Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub
- Experience with a message broker system (e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SQS)
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skills
- Collaborate with lead functional developer to define, develop, test, and release new features
- Provide workarounds and bug fixes for urgent production issues
- Familiar with DevOps and Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
Nice to have
- Object-oriented software professional, ideally with experience in at least one strongly-typed language
Full description
Must be able to work independently within defined projects/work streams and is checked on at the end for results.
Possesses a strong understanding of large-scale application architecture and design.
Must have strong communication skills, particularly in collaborating with external parties, including business stakeholders. This is essential.
Has an executional role in design and development projects or acts as an expert tester who designs test scripts and provides overall project guidance and planning support.
Advises internally on solving functional and technical problems regarding the assigned applications and Infrastructure.
Mandatory skills:
- API development using Python as OOP
- Experience in how distributed asynchronous systems work, how to design them to avoid data conflicts and how to do it all in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines.
- Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB, Oracle
- Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub, or experience with any kind of message broker system (e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SQS etc)
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skill
- Object-orientated software professional that ideally has experience using at least one strongly-typed language
- Collaborate with the lead functional developer to define, develop, test, and release new features --Provide workarounds & bug fixes for urgent production issues
- Familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment