Staff Python Engineer
November 14
Description
• We are looking for an experienced and motivated Staff Python Engineer to join our Product Engineering Team. • You will lead technical strategy, execution, and delivery of key projects, shaping architecture and prioritising performance and security. • Beyond your technical role, you'll mentor team members, share knowledge, and set an example for the entire Engineering Team. • This is a full-time position where you can work remotely in Europe or from one of our following offices: Vienna, London, Katowice or Sofia. • In the first month: • Get to know the team and become familiar with our product, technologies, systems, and practices, focusing on understanding the Transformations & Enrichments architecture and codebase inside-out. • Absorb our culture, start coding, and ramp up quickly within Adverity. • Start participating in meetings to understand and clarify project requirements and align with stakeholders. • In the first 3 months: • At this point, you know the Adverity platform very well, both product and tech. You are a technical leader. • Support the team and mentor engineers with deep code reviews, guiding them towards better system quality and engineering practices. • Start leading conversations and documenting project solutions and planning the technical delivery. • In the first 6 months: • Participate in shaping new features, get your hands dirty in PoCs, break down technical scopes, and start working cross-team. • Drive incident responses, help out in diagnosing complex issues, and shape operational excellence. • Build strong connections within and outside of the Engineering Team: Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Customer Support, etc. • After 6 months: • Drive strategic cross-product engineering initiatives and guide teams towards pragmatic technical decisions based on a limited context, striving to constantly improve maintainability and reliability. • Foster a culture of excellence: outcomes-oriented solutions, incremental value delivery with good predictability on commitments, high technical quality, extensive testing, thorough monitoring, performance & security built-in. • Lead process optimisation initiatives to enhance practices not just within your team but across the company, extending even to non-technical areas like Operations (Ops).
Requirements
• Generalist experience building end-to-end solutions from scratch and scaling complex systems, with a deep understanding of web technologies. • Expertise in Python, with proficiency in libraries such as Django and Celery, and staying current with the ecosystem. • Thorough knowledge of modern databases, such as PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, SQL Server, or similar. • Ability to conduct deep code reviews, ensuring code quality while understanding the bigger picture. • Experience diagnosing complex systems, including performance, monitoring, logging, and tracing. • A history of leadership and teamwork, supporting multiple teams (ideally in a cross-functional setup) and aligning them with the technical roadmap. • Strong communication skills, including active listening, advocating, persuading, and synthesising information effectively, as well as mentoring engineers. • A curious mindset with a passion for continuous learning and the ability to quickly dive deeper when needed. • A bias for action and making timely, pragmatic decisions. • Nice to have: • DevOps mentality. • Kaizen approach. • Product knowledge: Marketing and tooling for marketers, agencies, and advertisers.
Benefits
• Flexible working hours and home-office • Ergonomic workspace and cutting edge technology • Budget for job relevant training • Regular team events (also remote) • Modern and stylish offices • Sustainable merch for all employees • Adverity Social Responsibility Days (+2 days paid off)
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