Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Hybrid working - 2 days per week in office in Brighton, 3 days per week remote

Salary to up £75k plus excellent benefits

My client are a leading Digital eCommerce company who have their main development team based in Central Brighton. This company are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a background in Python (or similar language Java, C++, Node.js/TypeScript, C# or PHP) to join their team. This role is working remotely and with 2 days per week in their beautiful, hi-tech Brighton offices.

They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a strong OO development background, with also strong skills in TDD and understanding of Solid Principles and development design patterns

They are happy to consider good software engineers with a background in OO development using technologies like Java, PHP, C#,, Node.js or similar development language if Python is not your main skill to join their team.

In this role you will be building Python server applications in a service-oriented architecture and deploying them to Kubernetes. So a desire to upskill and work with Python and JavaScript is essential in this role

A keen investment in technology is at the forefront of this company’s mission with a clear vision of what their eCommerce products should be. They take a cloud native approach to development and infrastructure with lots of room for experimentation and improvement. They pride themselves in fostering a culture of quality and openness within the team.

This role is based two days per week in their high-tech offices in Brighton, with a team of co-located skilled engineers and product professionals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement Python web services in Django and Flask
  
  
• Maintain and extend existing Python web services based on new feature requirements and business needs
  
  
• Collaborate with Frontend Engineers and Test Automation Engineers to ensure integrations with APIs are correct and complete
  
  
• Document your APIs so they can be consumed downstream by the Frontend and Test Automation teams as well as Data Analytics teams.
  
  Skills and experience in some of the following would be ideal:
  
  
• Strong experience with a language like Python or Java, C#, PHP, Node.js, JavaScript or similar
  
  
• Back end development focused experience.
  
  
• Willingness to learn Python and develop in a TDD and OO development environment.
  
  
• Experience managing Git workflows
  
  
• Understanding of Relational Databases, PostgreSQL, MySQL or similar
  
  
• Experience with Docker both building and running images
  
  
• Experience working in an Agile / Scrum team
  
  
• Comfortable with working outside of your main discipline in order to collaborate across your Scrum team
  
  This is a very exciting software engineering role and will suit a Senior Software Engineer who has a strong love of open source technology and would like to work for a genuinely innovative and caring technology company.
  
  Please send your CV for immediate interview