Lead Python Developer, GCP Python Engineer

£70-90k + Benefits

2 days on site in North London

3 days remote

I am recruiting for a talented and driven Senior Backend Engineer to join a dynamic team, focused on the creation and deployment of innovative software solutions. As a Backend Engineer, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, design, and quality assurance, to develop cutting-edge features that power our platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Contribute to the development of new features by working alongside engineering, product management, design, and QA teams.
• Promote best practices: Advocate and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and best practices. Your in-depth knowledge of backend technologies will help guide and support your peers, ensuring high-quality code.
• Automation and process improvement: Increase development efficiency, reliability, and scalability by creating automated processes that streamline workflows.
• Foster engineering excellence: Promote engineering best practices across the team and inspire your peers to improve their skills and capabilities.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience designing and building REST APIs (ideally with Flask, FastAPI, or similar frameworks).
• Expertise in designing architectures that meet scalability, reliability, and security goals.
• Strong problem-solving skills, particularly in product development.
• Solid understanding of backend best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns.
• Experience in automating builds (CI/CD), feature flags, and automated testing.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with message-driven systems (e.g., Google Pub/Sub).
• Proficiency in relational databases (RDBMS), particularly with Postgres.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases (document store/key-value store) is a plus.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and configuration management (ideally using Terraform).
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Build for CI/CD actions, deployments, and builds.