Backend Developer

Role Name :
Backend Developer
Location :
London, Canary Wharf 3x/week
Hybrid/Remote :
Hybrid – 3 days per week
Duration: 1 year + option to extend

Job Description:

• Requirements:

Top Must-Haves:
Python

* Postgres SQL

* Experience with SDLC and design of new greenfield solutions

Responsibilities:

• Design sophisticated backend components, services, platforms, and Restful APIs for seamless communication with the front end.

• Continuously reviewing the services and components and seeking opportunities for improvements.

• Identifying and addressing Tech Debt.

• Influencing and delivering the product roadmap to improve our Key Performance Indicators and deliver tangible business value.

• Developing the team’s Software Engineering skills.

• Owning the team’s culture and ways of working, instilling a care for high quality code and tests and for implementing best practices.

Technical

Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with your peers through to senior leaders. Should be able to engage and influence others to collect requirements, describe what you’re doing, work through problems, and find productive solutions.

• Self-starter, able to handle ambiguity, navigate uncertainty, identify risks, and find the right people and tools to get the job done.

Software

Skills:

• Skillful in Python for developing scalable and maintainable software.

• Database design and knowledge of Postgre

SQL.

• Strong Software Engineering Design capabilities and understanding of Computational Complexity.

• Skillful in software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations