Sr. Python BackEnd Developer (GCP)

Appnovation is looking for a talented Senior Developer with strong Python development experience, to join our highly motivated and experienced team. The successful candidate will work on innovative projects that span our offices across the Globe, providing expert development skills within our agile cross-functional teams.

WHO YOU ARE

• You think about how to scale, automate and operate, not just how to build a solution to an immediate problem.
• You understand lean thinking.
• You set high standards for code quality, performance/scalability and security and seek continuous improvement.
• You have solid analytical and problem solving skills.
• You have strong self-initiative, passion, interpersonal, oral and written communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work, influence and make an impact in a cross-functional environment with all levels of the organisation.
• You are responsive and thrive in a fast-paced diverse high-performance environment with rapidly changing business needs.
• You actively seek out things outside your comfort zone with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies.
• You are able to develop flexible and well-structured front-end architectures for a wide variety of clients.
• Well-practised with Agile Development Methodology, working in short sprint cycles, and able to help lead other developers.
• Hands on and able to assist with critical coding, peer programming and advise on refactoring, TDD, etc.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS  :

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, web and/or mobile.
• Experience in team leadership, working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent understanding of API driven technologies and architectures.
• Strongly adaptable and able to work closely with Solution Architects, Developers, UX and design teams.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Strong GCP experience.
• Extensive Experience building automation tooling that increases the efficiency of operations teams
• Extensive scripting in bash or Python
• Experience with web applications in Python
• Experience designing, orchestrating, and deploying container-based solutions using Docker or Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding of security and privacy by design principles
• Deep understanding of DevOps principles, processes and tools (e.g. IaC, configuration management, CI/CD and orchestration)
• Experience with continuous delivery tools and methodologies like GitHub, Bitbucket, GitHub actions, Travis CI, Jenkins and agile development.
• Experience with System Testing
• Deep understanding of agile principles and methodologies and advanced Scrum practitioner

NICE TO HAVE

• You actively seek out things outside your comfort zone with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies.
• You are comfortable in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and rapid growth environment.
• Solid understanding, experience and capabilities with cloud technologies, serverless, event driven architectures, message queues, security best practices, identity management, performance engineering, CI/CD.

WHAT APPNOVATION HAS TO OFFER

Appnovation’s development teams are collaborative, friendly and open, with extremely rewarding and varied work and we encourage development both professionally and personally! Aside from work, we offer a people and culture orientated, fun and dynamic hybrid remote working and in-office environment. 

Here’s a few more reasons why you should apply:

• • • Rocketing growth – yours and ours. There are a lot  of opportunities for personal and professional growth. We have a culture of internal promotions.
    • Health Benefits Package.
    • Fitness Allowance.
    • Flexible Working

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