Senior Back End engineer - Hybrid role - API - Python/GCP

Python Back End engineers are required by this leading Product company as they look to bring their development back in-house and build out the functionality on an already-successful platform operating in a niche space with a fantastic client base.You will be spearheading the creation and deployment of ground-breaking software solutions

Key Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a cross-functional team to help drive the development of new features
• Lead change, innovation, and drive transformation within our teams: your expertise will identify opportunities for improvement in our Front End applications, tooling, and architecture.
• Ensure best practices and patterns: you will advocate and enforce best standards, and patterns.
• Your deep understanding of Front End 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 efficiency, reliability, and scalability, by creating automated processes that improve development workflows.
• Promote engineering ways of working: by taking the lead in establishing the importance of engineering first principles in your team and ensuring they are followed.
• 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.
• Participate in hiring new engineers: you will be part of the interview and hiring process, using your experience and insights to identify top talent.
• You will help build the engineering team.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Significant experience in API and web application development using Python with Flask and/or FastAPI
• Experience with creating REST APIs
• Experience with Cloud Functions, ideally in Google Cloud/Terraform
• Experience with containerisation - Docker/Kubernetes
• Ability to design architectures to meet scalability, reliability and security targets
• Good problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development
• In-depth understanding of best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns in Back End development.
• Experience in automating builds, code checks, and releases using industry-standard tools.
• Knowledge and experience of Agile methodologies and practices
• Experience of B2B2C SaaS products would be an advantage

The role requires 2 days a week in the London office