Roles and Responsibilities

We are looking for a Python engineer with experience of running multiple different systems in production for real users. Youll work with our Product Owner, mobile development team, and other backend developers to build and improve our apps, websites and systems. These include our iOS, Android and web based version of our English Score test, our B2B dashboard, and our internal tools. Day to day your core focus will be to ensure that our API infrastructure is reliable and growing to meet our business needs.

This means you must:

• Be fluent in Python, Flask, Sqlalchemy and Postgres
• Be able to effectively design APIs and database / object schemas
• Know how to strike the right balance between pragmatic agile iterative development and longer term investment to manage technical debt.
• Have experienced, and know how to successfully manage CI/CD including deployments to production that involve database schema updates without scheduled downtime.
• Have the ability to take ownership of issues - to analyse and identify problems not faced before. Theres a few other skills that would be useful but not essential to have, including:
• Experience with AWS IAM and AWS SSO
• Production use of AWS Lambda
• Architecting and implementing with GDPR / privacy by design and implementing appropriate security requirements
• Knowledge of DNS and CDNs such as Fastly And to do this well at EnglishScore, we expect youll have experience of many of the following:
• AWS and/or Heroku
• Using APM or similar tooling to enable prioritisation of performance and defects
• Working on products for international audiences
• Using analytics to guide and refine priorities
• Collaborating with Product Owners, UX teams, and other stakeholders

Desired Candidate Profile

Must Experience in building REST API, not in integrating third party APIs.

Excellent Communication Skills.

Skills:

Python

Sqlalchemy

Postgres

AWS Lambda