Back End Technical Lead - Python, Django

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Insurance • Financial Services • Energy and Specialized Markets

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💰 $500M Post-IPO Debt on 2023-03

Description

• Overseeing architectural improvements to our backend systems in line with planning and strategy • Ownership of our APIs used by internal and external clients • Enabling new and existing applications to capitalize on our innovative data management and ETL platform • Manage an agile team and lead requirements gathering, refinement, and delivery • Communicate and collaborate effectively with management and other team leads • Deliver high-quality, maintainable well-tested code • Peer review other developers' work in a thorough and constructive manner • Look for and drive opportunities to improve code quality, development processes, and team satisfaction

Requirements

• Industry experience in working with Agile software development practices • To show leadership experience in prior projects or teams • A deep understanding and commercial experience of Python and Django • Good understanding of frontend web technologies and how web browsers behave and perform • Very knowledgeable in REST APIs, both in authoring and consuming • Good level of experience in SQL and database interaction • Knowledge and experience in applying Web Security best practices • Good understanding of git and working collaboratively on team-level code bases • Strong TypeScript, JavaScript and HTML (Nice to haves) • Cloud (in particular AWS) experience (Nice to haves) • Use of serverless technologies (Nice to haves) • Docker / Containerization experience (Nice to haves) • Node.js experience (Nice to haves) • NoSQL database experience (Nice to haves)

Benefits

• Structured planning for career professional development • Comprehensive training and onboarding • Modern development practices and standards • Flexible working • AWS certification supported and funded • Bonus scheme • Private health insurance • Holiday purchase/sell scheme • Save as You Earn • Verisk share scheme