Senior Backend Developer (Python)

We are looking for senior Python Backend Developers to join our talented engineering squad. The team is responsible for our main infrastructure and delivering the necessary tools to create the best in-store experience possible. You MUST have experience in Python and Django and within a scaling product business, as you will need to work at speed. You will also be used to change.

You'll work closely with the VP of Engineering and other squad members, alongside the Product, Payment, Security and Delivery teams, achieving the roadmap which has been set against our top business priorities. You'll work on getting rid of tech debt, deploy best-in-class systems and architecture and ensure that we can scale to 1000s of stores while maintaining system performance at over 99.9% at the push of a button. You should have experience building microservices from scratch that have over time scaled to millions of requests; experience working with retail systems such as inventory, promotions, ERP, EPOS, loyalty programmes or payments in a physical or online retail environment is a huge plus for this position. If you're a startup enthusiast who is passionate about solving complex problems and wants to learn something new every day, we'd absolutely love to speak to you!

Responsibilities:

• Deliver stability of over 99.95% across Mishipay's key platforms.
• Achieve ability to scale the infrastructure so it can handle up to 100k transactions a day.
• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements to improve the performance of large-scale services.
• Actively work to clear tech debt as we continue developing new technology.
• Coach and mentor junior team members.
• Prepare high-quality technical documentation.

Requirements:

• 4-5 years' development experience using the Python programming language (preferably also knows Node.js ).
• Experience with at least one relational database like PostgreSQL or MySQL and also one NoSQL database like MongoDB or Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider like AWS, Azure or GCP (Azure preferred).
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the deployments-orchestration technologies like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm etc.
• (bonus) Hands-on experience with event-driven services and technologies like Kafka, Amazon SQS, Apache Spark etc.
• (bonus) Worked in a start-up that has seen scale or comes from an entrepreneurial background.
• (bonus) Experience of fintech, retail systems and technologies.