Backend Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to your development team lead, you will:

• Extend, improve and maintain Tracr’s back-end services.
• Using test-driven best practices, write and maintain unit and integration tests.
• Write technical specifications for new features.
• Peer-review the code of other developers, and in doing so help to maintain high code quality.
• Work to improve and maintain the engineering team’s culture and processes to meet the demands of feature development and system maintenance.
• Work with the support team to investigate, accurately report, and fix issues found in production systems.

Requirements

• At least 6 years’ experience using Python to develop APIs
• Experience building microservice architectures
• Experience of developing distributed systems is a plus

Knowledge & Technical Skills -

• Python3
• Test-driven development
• FastAPI
• SQLAlchemy
• Rust
• Typescript (nice to have)
• Postgres
• Knowledge of distributed systems best architectural practices
• Amazon SQS
• Excellent written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills,
• Comfortable communicating with numerous stakeholders of varying levels of technical ability.
• Ability to quickly understand and analyse requirements.
• Solution oriented with a high sense of quality, attention to detail, accuracy, efficiency, and meeting tight deadlines.
• Passionate about producing robust, well-tested and well-engineered work.
• Pragmatic and agile when working to build a viable product within a limited timeframe

Additional information

• A great working environment
• The opportunity to develop your skills within a growing company
• Staff discount
• Fantastic pension scheme
• 27 days of holiday with the opportunity to buy or sell 5 more days
• Mental health is a top priority for De Beers Group. We offer free subscription to Headspace and have mental health first aiders
• Competitive salary
• Exceptional benefits package
• Employee share schemes and variable salary components
• Your Choice membership discounts
• Discounted gym membership
• Free breakfast and lunch at on-site staff restaurant

The listing will be closed as soon as sufficient applicants have been received.

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