Backend Python Developer - Contractor (London or Remote)
Festicket, United Kingdom
Job Description
The Festicket Group family is a truly international team with 100+ people from over 20 different countries, all passionate about changing the face of live event experiences. Our head office is in Camden, London with a remote workforce distributed across Leeds, Berlin, Amsterdam, Porto, Nantes, Denver and Australia.
Since 2012, we have provided a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travellers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,500+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 5,000 suppliers for accommodation amp; travel packages. In eight short years, we have become Europe's largest music festival platform.
Since our acquisition in 2019 of the multi-award winning cashless POS platform Event Genius and the associated Ticket Arena consumer website and brand, we are on track to become the most complete end-to-end live events platform for fans and organisers built to serve any event, any size.
We're now post Series-D funded, and backed by some of Europe's largest VC funds.
THE ROLE:
As a backend engineer you will focus on our Python (3) applications, built with Django web framework and Celery for asynchronous tasks, with Django Rest Framework APIs powering our React frontend applications. Everything is deployed on AWS and we use Docker in development and production with ECS as our orchestration system. We automate deployments and environment management via Slack, we even try to automate Jira away (so you almost don't notice it’s there).
Full details of our stack can be found here.
Duties amp; Responsibilities of the role:
- Work closely with Product and the other engineers in your team to plan, implement, release and maintain new features and functionality in your product area
- Write good quality, maintainable code that strikes the right balance between technical excellence and delivery of business objectives
- Collaborate with other Backend Engineers on improving our codebase, defining new conventions, making architectural design decisions, paying off technical debt and maximising team productivity
- Maintain our commitment to continuous delivery, automation and quality best practices
- Actively contribute to Agile rituals (stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retros) to help the team achieve its goals, provide product feedback and technical expertise
- Participate in ensuring the smooth operation of our applications by managing releases and being part of our technical support rota
Requirements
Skills and knowledge:
- 2+ years of professional experience with Python web applications (beneficial to have some experience of Django or Flask frameworks)
- Good knowledge of SQL
- Comfortable with git
- A computing or software engineering degree isn advantageous but not mandatory
- Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs is beneficial
- Experience working within a fast-paced Agile environment
Behaviours we expect you to demonstrate in this role:
- Extremely organised and methodical whilst remaining pragmatic
- Collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A great communicator who is being open, honest and direct
Additional characteristics we expect our entire team to demonstrate:
- Adaptability and flexibility in the ever-changing world of a scale-up dealing with the challenges of a global pandemic that has hit the live music industry harder than most other sectors
- Intellectual curiosity, and the confidence to ask questions until you understand
- Positivity and a can-do mindset when faced with new opportunities
- Self-motivation and a sense of pride in achieving stretch goals on your own merit
- Comfort receiving and providing constructive criticism, as well as ‘managing upwards’
Benefits
We’re a team of 100, with our HQ located in the amazing heart of Camden. By joining us you will be part of one of the fastest-growing music/travel start-up companies in the world, where you will have ample opportunity for career progression as we continue to grow.
- 25 days holiday
- Flexible working from home and remote-working policy
- Eyecare Discounted eye tests and glasses
- Opportunities to go to selected amp; partnered music festivals for free amp; all year round staff discount
- Extra day holiday for your birthday
- Festicket workplace pension
- Long service awards
- Value driven start up culture