Python Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

My client is one of the largest dedicated cloud practices in Europe, working with some of the most established and large-scale organisations across the UK and wider Europe on some of their most prestigious projects. Due to continued growth and client wins, they are now looking for Python Engineers who have GCP experience to join their ever-expanding team, working on a series of Public Sector projects.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understanding existing customer systems and re-architecting them as part of a wider project team.
• Working with your fellow Engineers to translate customer requirements into technical designs, and follow this through to delivery of the solution.
• Contributing to the design alongside the platform team to build highly available, global and cloud-native platforms.
• Building software based on modern architecture techniques such as microservices.
• Applying modern software methodologies to your code; for example Twelve-Factor App.
• Mentoring junior members of the team and helping to drive their development.
• Contribute to internal tooling that the wider team builds and maintains.

KEY SKILLS

• Commercial experience programming in Python using Jinja and Flask and at least one other language; for example Javascript / Typescript / NodeJS, SC, Go, C#.
• Hands-on experience with GCP (Google Cloud Platform), including the use of their data-related components to build solutions.
• An understanding of modern software patterns and methodologies such as Twelve-Factor, Progressive Apps, Single Page Apps, Observables, etc.
• Happy writing queries against common Databases be it MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.
• Comfortable developing with Docker.
• Experience in using unit testing and CI / CD and following TDD best practices (utilising frameworks such as Mocha, Jest, Jasmine etc.)
• Experience building, consuming and integrating with REST APIs.
• Confident communicator both written and verbal.

REQUIREMENTS

• Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance, so will need to be a UK National or have lived in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.
• Existing SC clearance would be a distinct advantage.