Staff Python Software Engineer
- A professional history in software engineering with a deep knowledge of the technologies in our stack
- Proven experience in making technology decisions, design decisions and fulfilling a technical leadership role
- Strong project delivery experience with a proven history of designing, prioritising and leading a team through the end-to-end process from requirements gathering through to production
- Time management skills to delivery projects to meet deadlines
- Proficiency in writing well-structured async Python code with type hints and unit tests
- Experience maintaining codebases for business-critical systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skill with the ability to convey technical topics to a non-technical audience
- Experience in optimizing systems for performance, scalability and reliability
- Proficiency in Git for version control
- A history of building cloud-native solutions with experience working with at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Strong SQL skills for efficient data management and retrieval
- Knowledge of lending products and business processes will be a major advantage
- Lead foundational projects that help technology scale, improve stability, reduce costs, and our make our engineers more efficient
- Take a lead in identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the current SDLC, spanning QA automation and CI/CD pipeline optimisation
- Work on cost-effective platform scalability of a multi-client system
- Work on all aspects of platform resilience, covering observability and recoverability to maintain SLAs targets
- Participate in the entire SDLC, helping to design changes, review code, build tests, and coordinate deployments
- Collaborate closely with colleagues in Product and Design as well as users (both internal and external) to understand, challenge, and refine requirements
- Provide second-line support within business hours, helping to troubleshoot and resolve any system issues that impact our customers
- Supporting junior engineers through PRs and pairing
- Apply strong SQL skills to troubleshoot and improve the performance of data management and retrieval across our Postgres databases
- Everyone owns a piece of the company - equity
- Hybrid with 3 days a week in the office
- 25 days’ holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays
- 2 paid volunteering days per year
- One month paid sabbatical after 4 years
- Employee loan
- Free gym membership
- Team wellness budget to be active together - set up a yoga class, a tennis lesson or go bouldering
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