Summary
Pitchup.com is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with at least 5-7 years of experience to help modernize and build on their back-end development using Python and Django. The role involves adding features to existing customer and campsite-focused sites, working with the team to implement backend features, suggesting and implementing changes to the back-end architecture, and improving development practices.
Requirements
- Able to demonstrate at least 5 - 7 years of experience as a Backend developer, ideally within a scaling business
- Demonstrable proficiency in Python and a strong understanding of software architecture, microservices and ideally event-driven architecture
- An appreciation of the challenges regarding building adaptive and responsive websites
- You are able to solve problems in a structured way
- You are able to communicate technical concepts in a lucid, structured fashion to colleagues
- Team player, self-motivated, able to plan and prioritise effectively
- Experience of working as part of an Agile development team
Responsibilities
- Adding features to our current customer and campsite-focussed sites using Python
- Working with team members and our Product Owner to scope and implement backend features in our existing codebase
- Suggesting and implementing changes to the back-end architecture of our sites as we decompose our monolith
- Playing an important role in the improvement of our development practices
Preferred Qualifications
- Have relevant knowledge of the OTA sector
- Have experience of continuous delivery and/or feature flags
- Have an understanding of SOLID principles
- Are up-to-speed with modern backend development and have an appreciation for the pros and cons of ideas like event sourcing, branch-by-abstraction or BDD
- Have experience of working with both internal and third-party APIs
- Have a degree in a related discipline
Benefits
- ��500 to spend annually on learning & development at Udemy and whatever software you need
- Choice of technology
- Work-from-home office equipment allowance
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time employees)
- Pension matched to 4%, private healthcare, life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection - for peace of mind
- Discounts including: gym memberships, sports equipment, Caffe Nero, Odeon cinema and various hotel and retail outlets
- Great staff discounts on Pitchup bookings across thousands of properties in 70 countries
- Employee assistance helpline, in case you ever need someone to talk to, with access to get-fit programmes, nutrition advice, financial and legal advice and counselling
- Enhanced paternity and maternity leave
- Cycle to work scheme
