Python Developer

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, and build cutting edge web applications across a diverse range of platforms.
• Optimise and fine tune transactional processing to handle large concurrent numbers of purchases.
• Create unit tests and integration tests using manual and automated approaches.
• Develop software iteratively and deliver working code in each iteration.
• Performance tune and scale web applications to handle 10s of thousands of page views and transactions per day.
• Work with Product and Design teams to come up with the best user experience and application flow.
• Work collaboratively with Project Management, QA and other developers.
• Explore new technologies in order to evolve both application functionality and contribute to the design of infrastructure, deployment and maintenance processes.
• Provide third line support for Operations and our Customers in resolving Production issues.

Performance Capabilities:

• Extensive knowledge/experience in software engineering best practices (i.e. OOD, modularity, extensibility, reusability and maintainability)
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle practices and processes. Hands-on deep practical knowledge of Agile/Scrum is preferable.
• Practical knowledge and experience of CI/CD and related tools.
• Demonstrable experience of proactive work and time management and prioritisation.
• Able to self-plan and maintain an agile (hybrid-remote) working environment for oneself and ones colleagues

Skills and Experience Required:

• 5+ years experience in Python.
  
• 5+ System integration experience.
• 4+ years experience using Django
• LAMP + NGINX (python-centric) experience
• Excellent knowledge of relational SQL databases.
• Good working knowledge of HTML/JS/CSS.
• Docker and containerisation knowledge.

Additional Useful Experience:

• Payment Processing and Merchant Integration
• Experience architecting enterprise-level content-management systems
• Experience with Gitlab Continuous Integration and Deployment
• Advanced Virtualization, container technologies, Kubernetes orchestration
• AWS or other cloud service providers.