Backend Python Developer

Key Responsibilities

Job Specific Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Gather and address technical and design requirements.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Write clean code to develop functional applications.
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Provide training and support to internal teams.
• Proactively advice on best practices.
• Follow emerging technologies.
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features.

Education, Experience and Required Skills

Educational Qualification

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred

Processes & Practice

• Scrum/Kanban/Lean
• Agile
• TDD/BDD
• CI/CD
• XP

Experience

5-7 years experience

Essential Skills

• Strong understanding & working experience in Micro services and Rest APIs
• Adhere and use TDD/BDD.
• Optimized/maintainable and clear code.
• Follow Clean Code/Solid principles - Uncle Bob aka Robert C Martin
• Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized code.
• Working experience in Python is a must.
• Working experience in Kubernetes is a must.
• Working experience in Java is an added advantage.
• Working experience in Node JS is an added advantage.
• Messaging (One of RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, ActiveMQ or any such others).
• Mocking (any of the following Mockito, EasyMock, JMock, Spock, Mocha).
• NoSQL MongoDB.
• Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behavior and performance (any of Geb, Wiremock, Jmeter, Gatling, Sauce Labs).
• SQL Database (One of Oracle, MS SQL Server or Postgres).
• IDE Intellij or Eclipse or Visual Studio or JupyterNotebook
• Experience building server-side web applications.
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
• Knowledge of the git version control system.

Desirable Skills

• Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.
• Experience mentoring or helping colleagues optimize their code.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems.
• System administration and configuration management skills.
• Experience presenting work at user groups, business and to peers.
• Experience of building and scaling high-traffic systems.
• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.
• Experience of designing and maintaining public HTTP APIs.
• Experience in Apache Spark
• Other JVM languages (Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin etc).
• Other NoSQL databases such as Neo4J, Cassandra, Redis etc.