Software Engineer

Advantage Resourcing UK Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantage Resourcing UK Ltd. is seeking a Software Engineer to develop an entry portal and APIs using Python, working with distributed systems and modern containerized infrastructure. You will collaborate with stakeholders to design, develop, test and release features and mentor junior engineers.

The role emphasizes independent work within defined streams, solving technical problems, and supporting production systems with automation and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Experience building large-scale API services.
• Knowledge of distributed asynchronous systems and immutability across multi-machine environments.
• Proficiency with SQL DB and Oracle databases.
• Experience with container orchestration and cloud platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure/AWS).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain Python-based APIs and services.
• Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to define, test and release features.
• Provide fixes for production issues and contribute to automation and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Python API development

Distributed systems design

SQL/Oracle databases

Docker/Kubernetes/AWS/Azure

Messaging brokers

DevOps / CI/CD

Mentoring junior staff

Tools

Docker

Kafka

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GitHub

RabbitMQ

SQS

Job description

Software Engineer - API Development with Python

London

Certain Advantage are recruiting on behalf of our global client for a Software Engineer to work on a deal entry portal that feeds Enterprise Risk Management Systems (ETRMs).

As a Software Engineer contractor you'll be expected to work independently within defined work streams; using your understanding of large-scale application architecture and design, API development skills using Python, to design and develop solutions, as well as solve functional and technical problems regarding assigned applications and Infrastructure.

You'll be expected to communicate and engage effectively with internal and external technical and business stakeholders.

Skills sought:

• API development using Python as OOP
• Experience in how distributed asynchronous systems work, how to design them to avoid data conflicts and how to do it all in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines.
• Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB, Oracle
• Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub, or experience with any kind of message broker system (e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SQS etc)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skill
• Object-orientated software professional that ideally has experience using at least one strongly-typed language
• Collaborate with the lead functional developer to define, develop, test, and release new features
• Provide workarounds & bug fixes for urgent production issues
• Familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• Experience at mentoring junior staff