Senior Python Engineer
Python, AWS, SaaS
Remote - UK Based
I am partnered with a well-funded and fast-growing B2B SaaS start-up who’s mission is to make the onboarding and hiring of staff as efficient and easy as possible.
Last year they raised £2 million in seed round on their journey to become the number one company for employment verification
Apply Now – if you want to work remotely for a well established start-up as they disrupt the verification sector!
The Role:
- The main responsibility will be to build and deploy API's, you will be expected to create with a product mindset as our end user experience is paramount.
- Build and deploy APIs for interconnected services
- Design APIs for clients and partners (authentication / versioning / documentation)
- Design and develop ETL pipelines using Python and AWS services
- Help prioritise our backlog with a balance between short-term deliverables and longer-term investment in our technology
- Effectively communicate trade-offs to other areas of the business
- Collaborate with the whole development team to influence system architecture and feature design
- Design, test, and deploy new features in a continuous and iterative manner
- Work autonomously on projects from start to finish, and be responsible for the code you write. You build it, you run it.
Key Requirements
- Several years experience as a backend engineer
- Experience with AWS: ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS/SQS
- Strong testing practices, especially Test Driven Development
- Experience with Enterprise Integration Patterns
- An end-to-end systems-mindset; we are building a product that should grow itself and require minimal intervention from our team
- Experience working in a close knit, collaborative, rapidly growing team
- The ability to work in a highly agile environment, using CI/CD practices
- A passion for creating products that are user-friendly and contribute to our product-led growth strategy
- A knack for identifying good UX
- Fluency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication
- Nice to have: Experience with Event Driven Architecture and System architecture
