Senior Backend Engineer

As a backend engineer you will focus on our Python applications, built with Django web framework and Celery for asynchronous tasks, with Django Rest Framework APIs powering our React frontend applications. Everything is deployed on AWS and we use Docker in development and production with ECS as our orchestration system. We automate deployments and environment management via Slack, we even try to automate Jira away (so you almost don't notice it's there). Full details of our stack can be found here . Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product and the other engineers in your team to plan, implement, release and maintain new features and functionality in your product area
• Write good quality, maintainable code that strikes the right balance between technical excellence and delivery of business objectives
• Collaborate with other Backend Engineers on improving our codebase, defining new conventions, making architectural design decisions, paying off technical debt and maximising team productivity
• Maintain our commitment to continuous delivery, automation and quality best practices
• Actively contribute to Agile rituals (stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retros) to help the team achieve its goals, provide product feedback and technical expertise
• Participate in ensuring the smooth operation of our applications by managing releases and being part of our technical support rota

We firmly believe that no one is the finished article and that learning, growth and development should be part of any role you do. So some of the role will be learning as you go, and we hope that's exactly what you are looking for. However, some experience in the following is important for the role:

• 3+ years of professional experience with Python web applications (beneficial to have some experience of Django or Flask frameworks)
• Practical experience with relational databases (we use PostgreSQL)
• Comfortable with Git
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS and GCP is desirable
• Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs is beneficial
• Experience working within a fast-paced Agile environment

• Extremely organised and methodical whilst remaining pragmatic
• Collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A great communicator who is being open, honest and direct
  

Additional characteristics we expect our entire team to demonstrate:

• Adaptability and flexibility in the ever-changing world of a scale-up dealing with the challenges of a global pandemic that has hit the live music industry harder than most other sectors
• Intellectual curiosity, and the confidence to ask questions until you understand
• Positivity and a can-do mindset when faced with new opportunities
• Self-motivation and a sense of pride in achieving stretch goals on your own merit
• Comfort receiving and providing constructive criticism, as well as 'managing upwards'