Software Engineer, Python

Summary

Join YouGov, a global online research company, as a Backend Engineer and contribute to building high-value features, driving the evolution of the architecture and system, and ensuring the availability, scalability, and efficiency of their services. You will work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic, produce maintainable code, define testing strategies, and own your code all the way to production. You will also be responsible for running what you build using container orchestration and monitoring technologies, and performing code reviews. This role offers a full-time, 100% remote position based in Poland, Warsaw or any other city in European countries where YouGov has an entity, with flexible working hours, a good work-life balance, mental health programs, LinkedIn Learning courses, an additional day off for your birthday, and growth and learning opportunities.

Requirements

• Understanding of modern testing principles
• You have 2-3 years of commercial experience working with the majority of our tech-stack
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with a highly distributed microservices architecture
• Good knowledge of Python and some of the main web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Django, CherryPy)
• Experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL
• Good knowledge of Docker

Responsibilities

• Work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic
• Produce simple, maintainable code while always looking to improve it
• Define testing strategies and write automated tests
• Own your code all the way to production with a self-service continuous delivery pipeline and production infrastructure
• Run what you build using containers orchestration and monitoring technologies
• Perform code-reviews promptly, regularly and constructively

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to end user
• Experience participating in mitigating technical debt
• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS technologies
• Ability to think abstractly and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems
• 1+ years working remotely in a global environment

Benefits

• A full-time, 100% remote role based in Poland, Warsaw or any other city in European countries we have an entity in
• Flexible working hours (we are a global team of remote first developers operating in European, Indian and US/Canada time zones)
• A good work-life balance. Because we all work better when we are rested
• Mental health programs (Headspace app subscription, mental health sessions with invited coaches)
• LinkedIn Learning courses
• 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday
• Growth and learning opportunities