Senior Python Developer

Overview

My client is looking for a Senior Python Developer to join the Development team on a permanent basis. The successful candidate should be enthusiastic and eager to learn ad take ownership for their work and committed to building high quality extensible code. Ideally the candidate should have experience working within an agile software development team.

Responsibilities

• To design and develop code with performance optimization, extensibility and maintainability in mind
• Own and drive development tasks that you are involved in, participating and supporting your agile development SCRUM team. Provide support to the business for critical issues.
• Functionally and Unit test all developed code to a very high standard to enable QA to test efficiently

Skills Required

• Demonstrable experience with Python, MySQL & Linux
• 7+ years professional development experience
• 5+ years experience developing with Python
• Experience in version control systems, ideally Git
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced development schedule
• Strong communication skills and fluency in verbal and written English are essential
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar

Desirable:

• Experience/understanding of working in an Agile environment
• Experience with asynchronous networking library such as Twisted or Tornado
• Redis or other modern non-relational data storage systems
• Especially unit testing, test-driven development and behaviour-driven development
• Modern Python web frameworks. e.g. Flask, Django and Python ORM e.g. storm, sqlalchemy