Senior Backend Python Engineer

Summary

Join Zepz Group, a leading global remittance company, as a Backend Engineer specializing in Python and data processing. You will be responsible for building and maintaining backend services, handling large data volumes, and contributing to system design and architecture. You will work closely with product owners, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality code and ensure scalability, maintainability, and reliability of our platforms. Zepz offers a remote-first work environment, unlimited annual leave, private medical cover, retirement benefits, life assurance, and parental leave.

Requirements

• Strong experience in building backend services/APIs. This role specifically is for an engineer with solid experience with Python backend services.  A large part of the codebase you will be working on is currently in Python
• Strong experience in handling large volume of data and writing ETL processes, transforming data from multiple different sources using languages/tools such as SQL, Apache Airflow, DBT, Databricks
• Solid experience with system design and architecture
• Experience with unit and integration tests
• You are a system design enthusiast and have experience designing and transforming existing systems collaboratively to make them scalable, maintainable and reliable
• You have a true DevOps mindset and are able to support your team towards becoming true owners of their product/platform
• You work well with Engineering and Product members and are comfortable building effective relationships with stakeholders outside technology
• An open mind with respect to diversity and inclusivity. Our team (and customers) come from all over the world

Responsibilities

• Write great code: We understand code is read more than it’s written, better off tested and maintainability is a must
• Help shape what we build: You’ll be working closely with product owners, designers and other engineers to design and refine our work. We work as a team and your input is key
• Influence technology evolution: We are designing new platforms with long-term goals in mind and are also happy to improve with new technology capabilities
• Own delivery: We’re obsessed with shipping value; you’ll own work beyond a pull request. You’ll care about bugs, scalability, uptime and other non-functional requirements
• Grow together: You’ll review others' work and happily seek feedback on yours to ensure we build a better codebase and sharpen each other's skills
• Share your knowledge and points of view: We promote knowledge sharing across our teams and count on you to become an active member of one. Experiment with new tools, present your findings, shape our future standards
• Scope and Impact: You invent and try to simplify what we do. You insist on the highest standards from your team and yourself. You have charisma. You lead or influence a team. You tackle open-ended somewhat ambiguous problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Have worked at a scaling startup previously
• Have experience in successfully transitioning a monolith platform into domain-driven services

Benefits

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance!
• Private Medical Cover: ​​You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being
• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future
• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected
• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible
• We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive