Senior Django Developer - Digital Product Agency

Potato; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Digital Product Design firm in London is seeking a Senior Django Developer to lead the development team. The role involves building scalable web applications, mentoring developers, and working directly with clients. An ideal candidate is proficient in Python and Django, enjoys technical challenges, and thrives in a collaborative environment. Offers benefits like unlimited holiday and flexible working hours.

Benefits

Unlimited holiday

Free lunch every day

Fun and supportive working environment

Nice laptop and phone

Flexible working hours

Employer contributory pension scheme

Enhanced maternity / paternity scheme

Gym membership

Qualifications

• Proven ability to write great code and work directly with clients.
• Experience in mentoring and leading development teams.
• Enjoys finding creative solutions to technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Developer team to build complex, scalable web applications.
• Mentor and guide developers in the product team.
• Deliver technical aspects of products ensuring reliability and maintainability.

Skills

Building websites in Python & Django

Using Git

Engineering for relational and non-relational databases

Understanding security vulnerabilities

Job description

Overview

London,United Kingdom

Aug 23, 2018

We're Potato, a cutting edge Digital Product Design business with a pretty unique culture. Due to growth, we are looking for a Senior Django Developer to join us in our Studio in central London.

We love developing digital products, websites, tools and apps for huge audiences. Our clients include Google, YouTube, Tate to name a few. We are also proud to be a part of the AKQA network.

Responsibilities

This position will see you take a leading role in our large Developer team. You’ll need to be able to make sound architectural decisions while building complex and highly-scalable web applications. You’ll also mentor and lead developers in your wider product team.

Working alongside Designers, Coaches and Product Leads, you’ll be responsible for delivering the technical side of products by ensuring you and your team produce excellent simple, reliable, maintainable software, meeting user and client needs and timelines.

Qualifications

We’re looking for someone who writes great code, but also enjoys working directly with clients whilst taking a high-level strategic view of the product. We love to hire people who are keen to contribute to Potato’s unique culture and help us to develop our ways of working.

We like to see proven abilities in...

• Building websites in Python & Django
• Using Git (or any DVCS) to manage development in teams
• Use of Google App Engine or a similar Paa
• Engineering for both relational and non-relational databases
• Understanding security vulnerabilities and how to prevent them

We also want to talk to people who enjoy...

• Meeting and working directly with clients
• Mentoring and supporting fellow developers
• Working across the full web stack
• Producing high-quality software
• Finding opportunities to optimise and simplify software
• Writing secure and well-designed APIs
• Finding creative solutions to technical problems and user needs

About Potato

At Potato, we think that technology should improve our lives. That’s why best-in-class software development and human-centred design are at the heart of everything we do. We’re a talented bunch of problem solvers who are committed to finding a better way; delivering smarter products that provide more satisfying experiences and more valuable outcomes for our clients and their users.

Having launched some of the smartest, most scalable and secure digital products on the planet, it’s no wonder we’re trusted by our clients to provide them with the highest standards of delivery in the industry. Our team of experts (we call them Potatoes) collaborate across London, Bristol and San Francisco, to produce work for our rather impressive list of clients, including: Google, Natural History Museum, Tate and the BBC.

• Unlimited holiday
• Free lunch every day, drinks and snacks
• A fun and supportive working environment
• Nice laptop and phone
• Pick your own flexible working hours
• Employer contributory pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity / paternity scheme Gym membership

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