Backend Python Developer

Job Purpose

As a backend python developer you'll have strong skills in API and micro services development and want to work within multidisciplinary agile teams of developers, designers and researchers focused on products. You'll provide technical leadership, working closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles. You'll work closely with designers to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you'll ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

Job Specific

Responsibilities

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Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.

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Write clean code to develop functional applications.

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Troubleshoot and debug applications.

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Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications.

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Gather and address technical and design requirements.

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Provide training and support to internal teams.

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Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

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Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features.

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Follow emerging technologies.

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Proactively advice on best practices.

Education, Experience and Required Skills

Educational Qualification

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred

Processes &

Practice

       ▪     Agile

       ▪     Scrum/Kanban/Lean

       ▪     TDD/BDD

       ▪     CI/CD

       ▪     XP

Experience

5-7 years experience

Essential Skills

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Follow Clean Code/Solid principles - Uncle Bob aka Robert C Martin

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Adhere and use TDD/BDD.

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Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable and clear code.

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Working experience in Python is a must.

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Working experience in Kubernetes is a must.

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Working experience in Java is an added advantage.

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Working experience in Node JS is an added advantage

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Strong understanding & working experience in Micro services and Rest APIs

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Messaging (One of RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, ActiveMQ or any such others).

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Mocking (any of the following Mockito, EasyMock, JMock, Spock, Mocha).

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IDE Intellij or Eclipse or Visual Studio or JupyterNotebook

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Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).

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SQL Database (One of Oracle, MS SQL Server or Postgres).

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NoSQL MongoDB.

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Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.

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Experience building server-side web applications.

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Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behavior and performance (any of Geb, Wiremock, Jmeter, Gatling, Sauce Labs).

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An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

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Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.

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Knowledge of the git version control system.

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Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

Desirable Skills

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Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.

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Experience mentoring or helping colleagues optimize their code.

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Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems.

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System administration and configuration management skills.

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Experience presenting work at user groups, business and to peers.

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Experience of building and scaling high-traffic systems.

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Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.

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Experience of designing and maintaining public HTTP APIs.

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Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.

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Experience in Apache Spark

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Other JVM languages (Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin etc).

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Other NoSQL databases such as Neo4J, Cassandra, Redis etc.