Backend Engineer (Python) - Google Partner - £75K - Hybrid North London
Our Client are on a mission to revolutionise their industry by leveraging cutting-edge technology and their strategic partnership with Google to create seamless, intelligent, and scalable solutions for businesses worldwide. By joining them, you will be part of an innovative and dynamic team that is at the forefront of technological advancements, shaping the future and delivering unparalleled value to their customers.
They are on the lookout for a Backend Engineer to work on the creation and deployment of ground-breaking software solutions. As a Backend Engineer, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, design, and QA
Backend Engineer (Python) Key Responsibilities:
- Work as part of a cross-functional team to help drive the development of new features
- Ensure best practices and patterns: you will advocate and enforce best standards, and patterns. Your deep understanding of backend technologies will help you to guide your peers - ensuring that our code is of high quality.
- Work on automation and process improvement: you will increase ef?ciency, reliability, and scalability, by creating automated processes that improve development work?ows.
- Promote engineering best practices.
- Collaborate and share knowledge: you will engage with the engineering community, using your expertise to contribute to events and knowledge-sharing initiatives. You will inspire and motivate your peers to learn - improving their capabilities.
Backend Engineer (Python) Required Skills:
- Experience with designing and building REST APIs in Python (ideally with Flask, FastAPI or similar.)
- Ability to design architectures to meet scalability, reliability and security targets.
- Good problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development
- Understanding of best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns.
- Experience in automating builds (CI/CD), feature ?ags and automated testing.
Backend Engineer (Python) Bonus skills:
- Experience with message driven systems (ideally google pub/sub)
- RDBMS skills (ideally postgres).
- Experience with some kind of no SQL db (document store/key value store) would be helpful.
- Experience with containerisation (Docker or kubernetes).
- GCP skills including con?guration management (ideally using terraform).
- Experience with Google Cloud Build for CI/CD actions, deployments and builds.