Senior Python Engineer
Petlab Co., United Kingdom
Job Description
Title: Senior Python Engineer
Location: Remote in UK
Position: Permanent
About Petlab Co
PetLab Co. is the world’s fastest-growing pet supplement business. Launching in 2018, we successfully achieved a 9-figure revenue in 2022 without any external funding. We have a loyal community of loving pet parents and over 1.5 million happy dogs whose lives have been positively impacted by our innovative products. Our team is vibrant, fast-moving, and customer-driven where high-performers are valued and rewarded. And it is the ideal place for an ambitious, hardworking, animal lover who wants to progress their career rapidly.
A Day In The Life
Reporting in to our Lead Software Engineer you’ll be joining a small but highly productive team of talented engineers working on a platform transformation. Petlab is moving from its monolithic legacy tech to Python and microservices through a full Platform rebuild. This is a great opportunity to do some exciting work from the ground up in a super-fast moving and highly successful industry leading brand. The role offers a great opportunity to learn with a structured career path and plenty of flexibility through remote working.We move and think fast so it’s important that you are able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and are happy to roll up your sleeves to do whatever it takes to support the team in every way possible. There’s an opportunity to have an impact with lots of autonomy in a great team. If that sounds exciting - we would love you to join our pack!
Your day to day will look a little bit like this
- Take on more of a leading role within the team, mentoring any junior developers, enforcing best practices, emphasize code quality etc.
- Morning stand-up and peer reviews.
- Developing high quality, tested and scalable Python microservices for AWS.
- Collaborating with the tech lead to recommend solutions that satisfy functional and non-functional needs.
- Championing and sharing best practices to improve team and code over time.
- Informing others of blockers and communicate technical limitations or implementation misuse.
Requirements
What You Need
- Significant experience working as an engineer on Python and related backend technology
- A deep understanding of Python and its ecosystem, as well as a track record of successfully completing complex projects and making technical decisions.
- Excel at problem-solving with the ability to tackle complex and challenging problems independently.
- Experience building quality, and highly scalable backend systems
- Excellent understanding and experience of programming languages and paradigms
- Enthusiastic self-starter that will be able to work in a fast paced environment
- Proven ability to quickly build and maintain authentic relationships and trust with individuals with excellent communication skills
Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, including non-technical members of the organization.
- Any additional experience with the following tech would be advantageous: IAC, Microseverices, API Gateway, Lambda, Terraform and AWS Cloud
Our Tech Stack
- Python
- SQL
- IAC
- Microseverices
- API Gateway
- Lambda
- Terraform
- AWS Cloud
Benefits
The Good Stuff...
- Private Health Care through Vitality
- Generous Annual Leave - 28 days + public and bank holidays
- Flexible Working Hours We focus on results and trust people to manage their time, whether working from home, while travelling, or in the office!
- Help@Hand Employee Assistance Programme
- Royal London Pension Scheme We offer a workplace pension scheme with one of the UK’s leading providers of group pensions. With an employer contribution of 5%!
- Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave because time with new family members is important!
- Puppy Therapy working in partnership with Paws in Work to provide a boost of oxytocin twice a year.
- Generous Learning and development budget We always want you to keep learning.
- Free breakfast, fruits and snacks refuel and revitalise with free munchies in the office.
- Working Environment dogs are welcome!
- Life Assurance In the event of your death, while employed by us, your chosen beneficiaries will be provided with a tax-free lump sum equivalent of four times your basic salary.
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