Sr. Software Engineer (Python)

Pepperjam; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London is looking for a seasoned Python Software Engineer. This role involves developing high-performance systems for processing vast amounts of data in a scalable manner. The successful candidate will collaborate with talented architects and engineers to enhance the company's platform and ensure efficient operations. With a commitment to employee wellbeing, the company offers numerous benefits, including enhanced parental leave and private medical insurance.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced pension contributions

Cycle to Work scheme

Eye Care Vouchers

Life Assurance

Enhanced Wellness Program

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7 years of software development experience, primarily in Python.
• Experience with high concurrency and distributed systems.
• Strong communication skills for team collaboration and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop systems processing data in near real-time for thousands of events per second.
• Contribute to mission-critical systems, ensuring scalability for client demands.
• Write clean code with maintainability and scalability in mind.

Skills

Python

Problem Solving

Communication

Data Processing

Tools

Kafka

MySQL

Postgres

Job description

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The partnership channel offers scale and automation on a pay-for-performance model that delivers the operating leverage necessary for brand survival. Partnerize empowers marketers with technology built to discover, engage, and convert audiences, at scale, all while maintaining brand safety and control.

Why Join Us?

Our commitment to growing partnerships doesn't end with our clients. Our employees are carefully selected to be a part of our company because they emulate a carefully crafted and practiced set of core values that define us and our business. Joining Partnerize means joining a company that sincerely values your talent, expertise, and passion. We strive each day to hire and retain only the best. Doing so affords us the opportunity to be the best in the business, to exceed our clients' expectations, to innovate, to teach—and most importantly—to earn and maintain our clients’ loyalty.

The things you care about

At the heart of our platform we track performance marketing data and build a number of solutions to turn this data into useful information for our customers. We work with a lot of data, generating over a billion events across our infrastructure daily. We aim to make as much of this data available in real-time as possible, which is no mean feat at this scale! Our platform is powered by our REST APIs and everything is developed with an API-first approach.

As a Python Software Engineer at Partnerize, you will:

• Be responsible for developing systems that process data at near real time for thousands of events per second, operating with data sets in the region of tens of billions of rows.
• Contribute towards mission critical systems for the business, helping us to scale our platform to meet the demands of our clients.
• Work closely with the lead architect to build services that are scalable, fault tolerant, and resilient.
• Write clean, well-tested and refactored code while keeping in mind maintainability and scalability of the system.

You are a seasoned Python software engineer with:

• Have a minimum of 5-7 years of robust professional software development experience, prominently utilising Python as the primary language, within a commercial setting.
• Demonstrate mastery of Python programming, encompassing an extensive understanding of Python libraries and frameworks, coupled with a track record of building distributed systems with a strong emphasis on high concurrency.
• Experience developing against large volumes of data and implementing systems that are fault tolerant, distributed, and horizontally scalable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, for collaborating with team members and authoring technical documentation.

We hope you have:

• Hands-on experience with technologies like Kafka, MySQL, Postgres.
• Experience with processing financial data.
• Experience in reverse engineering and problem solving skills, specifically the ability to understand existing systems written in PHP to reimplement.
• An understanding of operational principles, specifically Linux based systems.
• 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave: 6 months full pay for birth parent, 4 weeks non-birth parent at full pay after one year employment
• 5 extra 'Partnerize Parental Days' each year
• Private Medical Insurance through Bupa
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays program