YO HR Consultancy - Python Backend Developer - Remote

Back-End Developer is needed in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Client: YO HR Consultancy

Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom

Contract: Contractor

Job Description

Location: Latin America/Europe - Permanent Remote

Experience: 6 - 15 Years

Role Type: Contracting Full Time (40 Hrs/week)

Overlap Hours: 8 Hours PST time

Contract Duration: 3-6 Months

A globally recognized firm is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join their Carriers team. The Carriers team is responsible for developing new features, building infrastructure, and maintaining current services. As a Senior Engineer, you will provide leadership and oversight in technical design, systems architecture, and coding for your team and the Engineering team.

Requirements

Mandatory Skills:

Python - 5 years,

Django - 5 years,

SQL - 5 years.

Hands-on experience with the AWS cloud is mandatory.

Total years of experience: 6+ years experience mandatory.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of experience in software development (purely backend).

• Coding experience in server-side programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Ruby) as well as database languages (SQL).

• Experience working with server-side MVC frameworks (e.g., Django, .NET, Spring, Rails, Phoenix).

• Past experience and success in building and supporting scalable APIs, services, or applications.

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success.

• Exhibit core behaviors focused on craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and team success.

• Ability to look ahead to identify opportunities, foster a culture of innovation, and build for scale.

• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and deploy software services with high SLAs that can handle millions of requests a day.

• Ensure scalability and maintainability through microservices adoption, decoupling of concerns from the data model, queuing of jobs, application layering, and container-based software distribution.

• Continue to build out and enhance CI/CD pipeline for smooth and safe production releases via automated testing and verification.

• Verify and ensure performance and correctness of systems in response time and throughput.

• Architect systems and refactor existing systems for optimal performance and reuse.

• Participate in peer reviews, testing, and design reviews for new features, products, and systems.

• Collaborate with business teams and provide early input to new product ideas and functionality.

• Define, implement, and monitor operational metrics to ensure performance and quality.

• Work with a sense of urgency and iterate quickly in an agile process.

• Mentor more junior engineers on engineering best practices.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills: demonstrated ability to understand business challenges and translate those into technical solutions.

Additional Information

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