Job description

Purpose Of The Job

Our client is looking for an experienced developer to join team responsible for development of the ecosystem of (primarily) Python microservices. You will be cooperating with other teams developing services contributing to several products. Your understanding of the underlying principles of microservices architectures means you will be comfortable operating autonomously, solving problems described in high level functional terms rather than prescriptive implementational detail. You are conscious of the risks to the integrity of API contracts that arise when API implementers and API users breach separation of concerns by collaborating too closely.

Main Tasks And Responsibilities

Build and deploy back-end services communicating over a range of APIs with other services;

Write clean, well-designed, and reusable code;

Test your code on an appropriate level and cooperate with the Developers in Test in creation of testing frameworks;

Be an engaged team member involved in every part of the software life cycle, from inception, through to delivery;

Acknowledge and be able to explain the tradeoffs with any technical decision;

Support and teach junior members of the team;

Take part in specification workshops where we define functional and non-functional characteristics of our systems;

Demonstrate a solid understanding of separation of concerns, APIs as contracts, and the importance of preventing implementation details and side effects from crossing the API boundary.

Education, Skills And Experience

MUST HAVE:

5+ years of software development;

Familiarity with Python 3, which will be the primary development language you use in this role;

SQL / Database knowledge is essential, you might have used ORMs in the past and you know why you want to avoid them;

Experience working with and integrating complex external REST APIs;

Experience working with one or more of the leading cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure);

Experience with serverless architectures (Lambda, Fargate, Cloud Run, et al.) and a clear understanding of when not to use them;

Experience with message queues (SQS, PubSub, RabbitMQ etc.) and data pipelines (Kafka, Beam, Kinesis, etc.);

You are an effective team player with strong communication, presentation and influencing skills;

You have a passion for improving coding and development practices;

You have worked with microservices communicating over a range of interfaces;

Understands how the web works, REST APIs, OpenAPI spec/Swagger, GraphQL, and the difference between REST and RPCs;

Understand TDD, BDD, unit testing, integration testing and when to use them;

Comfortable with trunk-based development in git;

Experience with back-end web application frameworks (Django, FastAPI, etc.).

Would Be a Plus

Google Cloud (Cloud Functions, AppEngine, PubSub, Stackdriver, etc.);

Docker, Kubernetes;

Typescript, NodeJS, React, Webpack etc.;

Java, C#;

Experience within the advertising / media agency space;

Terraform.

Required profile