Python Developer

JR United Kingdom; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative regulatory data technology company is seeking a mid-level Python Backend Engineer to join its remote-first tech team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on large-scale document processing using AI, collaborating closely with experts in various fields. You'll be responsible for designing and improving the API layers, internal tools, and UIs while ensuring high coding standards and best practices. As the company scales, you'll have ample growth opportunities, including share options and personal development time, making this an exciting moment to join a pioneering firm in the regulatory landscape.

Benefits

Share options

25 days holiday

Laptop

5 days personal development time

Qualifications

• Several years of production experience with Python 3.
• Experience with database schema design and optimizations for PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and improve data models and AI-driven document processing pipelines.
• Collaborate on coding best practices, PR reviews, and troubleshooting.

Skills

Python 3

API design

PostgreSQL

Agile development

AWS

Tools

Jira

FastAPI

Kubernetes

Job description

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RegGenome is a regulatory data technology company and a leader in the field of computational regulation, changing how the world produces and consumes regulatory information. As a regulatory data provider, we process the world’s regulation using AI to transform what is human-readable into machine-readable and machine consumable data. RegGenome is a commercial spin-out of the Regulatory Genome Project (RGP), a pioneering public-private partnership with the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, that aims to build universal information structures for describing regulation to create a regulatory commons.

Our team benefits from a strong connection to the University, bringing together deep expertise in scaling tech start-ups, developing NLP/ML models, and collaborating with regulatory communities. Following a successful seed funding round of £4.7 million in March 2022, we have established a solid product market fit and are experiencing significant commercial traction with global regulatory bodies and prominent international financial organisations.

Building on this momentum, we are now finalising our Series A funding round and preparing to expand our team across all areas. This is an exciting moment to join us on our journey as we leverage AI to create a world-leading repository for regulatory information.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for a mid-level Python Backend Engineer to join our remote-first cross-functional tech team.

We have developed a core document-processing capability for a rapidly expanding corpus of published regulations and supported regulatory themes which process millions of documents through several hundred ML models. Working with us, you will gain extensive experience in applied AI for very large-scale document processing and delivery. Skills that are incredibly relevant to the industry today.

Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you will work closely with senior infrastructure engineers, pipeline developers, ML engineers, UI developers, document quality specialists, legal experts and product managers to enhance and improve our data model, the AI-driven document processing pipeline, API layers, internal tools and UIs. You will create high-level and detailed designs, as well as work collaboratively regarding coding best practices, PR reviews, troubleshooting, production monitoring, and code efficiency.

About you:

• You’re an experienced engineer spanning backend used to working in Python
• You like to own the whole solution, from database schema design to API format and UI design principles
• You’ll be comfortable working with Agile, testing work and deploying to production multiple times each day
• You are organised, detail-orientated, and able to seek out information from colleagues to guide your decision-making in a remote-first organisation
• You understand the importance of structuring work in Jira in epics, stories/tasks and sub-tasks, organising and managing the backlog, adjusting priorities to match business needs, and documenting decisions clearly in ticket comments, Notion pages, and customer-facing engineering documentation
• You’re able to make explicit, reasoned decisions trading off short and long-term requirements, for example by prioritising speed of delivery or reliability depending on the circumstances

Your experience:

• Several years of production experience with Python 3
• Experience with database schema design and understanding of optimisations for read-heavy and write-heavy workloads with PostgreSQL
• Production experience with API design & benchmarking, especially JSON REST APIs and FastAPI
• Excellent coding skills and an appreciation for best practices in coding, PR reviewing, and agile development with daily deliveries to production
• Experience in AWS and/or GCP

Nice to have:

• Experience with Typescript, React, and UI coding best practices
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with asynchronous pipeline processing technologies, particularly Temporal
• Experience working in a growing organisation from start-up to scale-up
• Experience remote-working with international teams

What we offer:

• Ample opportunity to grow with the company as we scale
• Share options
• 25 days holiday in addition to UK Bank Holidays
• Laptop
• 5 days a year of personal development time

We are only accepting applications from candidates able to work in the UK at this time.