Our client is one of the fastest-growing property technology companies in the UK and Germany, with offices in the US and Turkey. Its mission is to improve lives by making property work better for everyone. The platform empowers landlords and property managers to manage their properties and internal trades workforce, source local trade talent, build community cohesion and provide better services than ever before. The end-to-end solution offers a flexible approach to compliance management, repairs reporting and delivery, ensuring landlords and property managers can be confident that their property meets necessary standards. 

We`re looking for an experienced Back-End Developer to join the engineering team. The team is constantly tackling challenging problems, such as online payments, quoting, invoicing, booking, search/scoring algorithms, ETL, data pipelines, in-app messaging, real-time notifications, and fraud prevention. Our client’s Back-End engineers mostly work with Python and Django on an increasingly more service-oriented architecture. The rest of the tech stack includes Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, AWS, ES6, React.js, Alt.js, Node.js, Express, Amazon Redshift, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Celery, Pandas, Numpy, Scrapy, Git with Zenhub, Jenkins, ElasticSearch, Logstash and lots of raw SQL for analytics. The client has a very large (but clean) code base as they put significant emphasis on design patterns, code readability, testability, maintainability, and extensibility. 

In our collaboration model, you will work and communicate directly with the development team on the client-side.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with product owners, product managers, UI designers, and other software engineers to write technical documents that identify software project requirements
  • Write well-formulated, testable, and readable code using appropriate software design patterns
  • Design, build and maintain APIs, microservices, and data pipelines
  • Design, normalize and optimize relational databases
  • Write complex SQL queries to get data from the database
  • Optimize APIs and database queries to improve the speed of execution
  • Debug and fix bugs across applications
  • Participate in code reviews
  • Review, maintain and refactor existing code to meet the requirements for improved or new features
  • Write technical documentation of code, algorithms, and APIs
  • Help in the drafting of end-user manuals

What we’re looking for:

  • 5+ years of experience with Python (Django is a plus)
  • Ability to work the UK working hours (+/- 3 hours)
  • Strong computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, discrete mathematics, software design patterns
  • Experience in relational databases management and SQL query optimization
  • Passion for writing clean, modular, well-commented, readable, and reusable code
  • Ability to think out of the box with a can-do attitude to get things done efficiently 
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts in plain English
  • Experience in managing more junior team members