As Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership to your team: review code, formulate solutions, and offer technical guidance and mentorship.

• Lead architecture discussions and contribute to enhancing the developer experience.

• Oversee the implementation and testing of solutions.

Project Ownership:

• Own business requirements and work independently to solve problems.

• Understand business needs, provide estimations, translate them into technical requirements, and lead implementation.

Development and Maintenance:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and microservices architecture.

• Utilise our tech stack: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Marshmallow, Postgres, RQ, SQS, GitHub.

• Participate in a weekly on-call rota with other backend developers (normal business hours only)

Collaboration and Communication:

• Communicate clearly and effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Work within a cross-functional team of developers and product managers to design features and solutions for our warehouse fulfilment software.

Infrastructure and Monitoring:

• Manage and deploy microservices using Kubernetes on AWS

• Use monitoring and logging tools such as Sentry, Grafana, and Loki.

Agile Practices:

• Embrace and implement agile methodologies, CI/CD, and modern development practices.

This is what you will need to succeed

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of backend development experience, with at least 3 years in Python.

• Proven ability to own business requirements and independently solve complex problems.

• Past experience with agile practices, CI/CD, deployment, and monitoring.

Technical Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Python, Flask and Postgres.

• Experience with RQ and SQS.

• Familiarity with GitHub and version control practices.

• Knowledge of microservices architecture.

• Experience with Kubernetes on AWS and containerised applications.

• Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools such as Sentry, Grafana, and Loki.

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication skills: ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong organisational skills.

• Ability to mentor and lead mid-level developers.

• Comfortable with honest feedback – you are not afraid to give and receive it.

• Constructive “can do” attitude to problem-solving

$60,000 — $105,000/year