Senior Python Developer

MarkIT Placements; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Python/Django Developer to join our engineering team. You will own key parts of the platform and help shape the architecture in a fast-growing, early-stage startup.

You will design and build our marketplace features, ship high-impact improvements, and work with modern tools to deliver reliable software in a collaborative environment. The role emphasizes ownership, quality, testing, and delivering value quickly while contributing to

Qualifications

• 2+ years commercial experience with Python.
• Experience with a web framework (Django/Flask).
• Strong focus on quality and delivering best possible code.
• Desire to test ALL the things.
• Eagerness to ship quickly and efficiently.
• Experience architecting scalable web applications.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building out our marketplace platform.
• Shipping and owning impactful new features and functionality.

Skills

Python

Web frameworks (Django/Flask)

Quality-focused development

Testing

Delivery velocity

System design

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

AngularJS

Python3

Celery

Git

Job description

INTRO

We are looking for a Senior Python/Django Developer to work with us to build our platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work in an exciting, early-stage startup in a senior role within our growing Engineering team and be supported in taking ownership of key parts of the product.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Playing a crucial role in designing and building out our marketplace platform
• Shipping and taking ownership of impactful new features and functionality

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN

• Friendly atmosphere
• Positive management
• Ping pong table
• Work with latest technologies
• Get to participate in architectural and technological decisions

REQUIRED

• 2 years+ commercial experience in Python
• Experience working with a web application framework (Django, Flask, ...)
• A strong focus on quality and a desire to get things done the best possible way
• A desire to test ALL the things
• Eagerness to get things shipped and being used as quickly and efficiently as possible.
• Experience in architecting and building scalable web applications

WOULD BE AWESOME

• Development & consumption of HTTP APIs
• Experience scaling a web application by orders of magnitude
• DevOps experience (repeatable deployments, automated releases, CI/CD, infrastructure as code)
• Experience developing financial applications for use by financial institutions

TECH STACK

• Django
• Jenkins
• Ansible
• AngularJS (1 & 2)
• Python3
• Celery
• Git