Remote Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Python)

Summary

Join our ambitious team at Plentific, a global real-time property solution company, as an experienced backend engineer. You'll be working alongside a highly technical and motivated team, applying fundamental engineering and problem-solving skills to solve challenges and bring value to our user base.

Requirements

• Strong computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, discrete mathematics, software design patterns
• Passion for writing clean, modular, well-commented, readable and reusable code
• Ability to think out of the box with a can-do attitude to get things done efficiently
• Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate technical concepts in plain English
• 5+ years experience with Python and any web framework (Django is a plus)
• Experience in managing more junior team members
• Previous work in relational database management and SQL query optimisation

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers, user interface designers and other software engineers to write technical documents that identify software project requirements
• Design, build and maintain APIs, microservices and data pipelines
• Write well-formulated, testable and readable code using appropriate software design patterns
• Optimise APIs and database queries to improve speed of execution
• Participate in code reviews
• Write complex SQL queries to get data from the database
• Debug and fix bugs across our applications
• Review, maintain and refactor existing code to meet the requirements for improved or new features
• Design, normalise and optimise relational databases
• Write technical documentation of code, algorithms and APIs
• Help in drafting of end-user manuals

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package
• Company laptop
• Remote working
• Flexible working environment including the option to work abroad
• Learning management system powered by Udemy