Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Pitchup.com is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with at least 5-7 years of experience to help modernize and build on their back-end development using Python and Django. The role involves adding features to existing customer and campsite-focused sites, working with the team to implement backend features, suggesting and implementing changes to the back-end architecture, and improving development practices.

Requirements

• Able to demonstrate at least 5 - 7 years of experience as a Backend developer, ideally within a scaling business
• Demonstrable proficiency in Python and a strong understanding of software architecture, microservices and ideally event-driven architecture
• An appreciation of the challenges regarding building adaptive and responsive websites
• You are able to solve problems in a structured way
• You are able to communicate technical concepts in a lucid, structured fashion to colleagues
• Team player, self-motivated, able to plan and prioritise effectively
• Experience of working as part of an Agile development team

Responsibilities

• Adding features to our current customer and campsite-focussed sites using Python
• Working with team members and our Product Owner to scope and implement backend features in our existing codebase
• Suggesting and implementing changes to the back-end architecture of our sites as we decompose our monolith
• Playing an important role in the improvement of our development practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Have relevant knowledge of the OTA sector
• Have experience of continuous delivery and/or feature flags
• Have an understanding of SOLID principles
• Are up-to-speed with modern backend development and have an appreciation for the pros and cons of ideas like event sourcing, branch-by-abstraction or BDD
• Have experience of working with both internal and third-party APIs
• Have a degree in a related discipline

Benefits

• ��500 to spend annually on learning & development at Udemy and whatever software you need
• Choice of technology
• Work-from-home office equipment allowance
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time employees)
• Pension matched to 4%, private healthcare, life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection - for peace of mind
• Discounts including: gym memberships, sports equipment, Caffe Nero, Odeon cinema and various hotel and retail outlets
• Great staff discounts on Pitchup bookings across thousands of properties in 70 countries
• Employee assistance helpline, in case you ever need someone to talk to, with access to get-fit programmes, nutrition advice, financial and legal advice and counselling
• Enhanced paternity and maternity leave
• Cycle to work scheme