Python Engineer

Just Eat Takeaway.com; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online food delivery platform is seeking an experienced developer to enhance their platform engineering efforts. This hybrid role requires strong proficiency in Python, AWS, and DevOps practices. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, developing, and optimizing engineer-facing products and features, working in a collaborative Agile environment. Join us to help shape the future of our developer platform!

Qualifications

• A strong drive for application and performance testing.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API or GraphQL API design and development.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to optimize code.

Responsibilities

• Planning and developing new engineer-facing products and features.
• Building robust and scalable software components and services.
• Optimizing applications to maximize speed and scalability.

Skills

Hands-on experience with Python

Application and performance testing

Experience with AWS or similar

RESTful or GraphQL API design

Experience with GIT and CI/CD tooling

DevOps processes and practices

Problem-solving skills

Tools

Docker/Kubernetes

ELK

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

AWS CloudWatch

Job description

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Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

At the JET platform engineering department we are looking for the one who can help us create an exceptional developer experience and take our developer platform to the next level.

We are building the next generation of our Platform Engineering and we are looking for an experienced and talented developer, someone who can act fast, react and adapt. If you are up to date with the latest technology and a person who gets things done - we are looking for you!

Location: Hybrid- 3 days a week from our London or Bristol office & 2 days working from home

Reporting to: Principal Engineer

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Planning and developing new engineer-facing products and features
• Building robust and scalable software components and services
• Optimizing applications to maximize speed and scalability
• Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders and globally
• Taking a flexible, proactive approach to your work
• An innovative and exploratory mindset is crucial, a drive to learn; offering new perspectives on existing solutions.
• You have experience supporting and maintaining high availability within a SaaS or Web Application and will have strong knowledge of web architecture.

What will you bring to the team?

• Demonstrable hands-on experience with Python in production environments, with a good understanding of design patterns (SOLID, DRY).
• A strong drive for application and performance testing.
• Strong experience with AWS or similar, with a focus on Containeratisation and Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API or GraphQL API design and development.
• Experience working with GIT and CI/CD tooling (Github Actions, Gitlab, Argo CD, AzureDevops).
• Experience with Devops processes and practices using different tools and methods to monitor systems in production, using such tools as ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog or AWS CloudWatch.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug and optimize code, Clear concise technical documentation; creating and maintaining runbooks and end user documentation. Comfortable working in Agile teams and participating in daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.