Lead Python Developer, Backend Developer, GCP, Flask,API

£70-90k + Benefits
2 days on site in North London
3 days remote
I am recruting for a talented and driven Backend Engineer to join a dynamic team, focused on the creation and deployment of innovative software solutions. As a Backend Engineer, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, design, and quality assurance, to develop cutting-edge features that power our platform.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Contribute to the development of new features by working alongside engineering, product management, design, and QA teams.

Promote best practices: Advocate and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and best practices. Your in-depth knowledge of backend technologies will help guide and support your peers, ensuring high-quality code.

Automation and process improvement: Increase development efficiency, reliability, and scalability by creating automated processes that streamline workflows.

Foster engineering excellence: Promote engineering best practices across the team and inspire your peers to improve their skills and capabilities.

Knowledge sharing: Actively engage with the engineering community, contributing to knowledge-sharing initiatives and events. Share your expertise to motivate and mentor your team.

Required Skills:

Proven experience designing and building REST APIs (ideally with Flask, FastAPI, or similar frameworks).

Expertise in designing architectures that meet scalability, reliability, and security goals.

Strong problem-solving skills, particularly in product development.

Solid understanding of backend best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns.

Experience in automating builds (CI/CD), feature flags, and automated testing.

Bonus Skills:

Experience with message-driven systems (e.g., Google Pub/Sub).

Proficiency in relational databases (RDBMS), particularly with Postgres.

Familiarity with NoSQL databases (document store/key-value store) is a plus.

Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and configuration management (ideally using Terraform).

Familiarity with Google Cloud Build for CI/CD actions, deployments, and builds.

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