Software Engineer

About the role

You will collaborate with product and design teams to build high-value features, drive the evolution of our architecture and system, and ensure the availability, scalability, and efficiency of our services.

What you will do:

• Work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic.
• Produce simple, maintainable code while always looking to improve it.
• Define testing strategies and write automated tests.
• Own your code all the way to production with a self-service continuous delivery pipeline and production infrastructure.
• Run what you build using containers orchestration and monitoring technologies.
• Perform code-reviews promptly, regularly and constructively.

What you will bring

• Understanding of modern testing principles.
• Proven commercial experience working with the majority of our tech-stack.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good English verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with a highly distributed microservices architecture.
• Good knowledge of Python and some of the main web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Django, CherryPy).
• Experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL.
• Good knowledge of Docker.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to end user.
• Experience participating in mitigating technical debt.
• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS technologies.
• Ability to think in an abstract manner and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems.
• Experience working remotely in a global environment.

Tools & Technology

• Collaboration & documentation: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Miro
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Vault, AWS, Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic, GitLab.
• Python (FastAPI, CherryPy, Flask), Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Here’s what we have to offer!

• A full-time, 100% remote role based in any country in which we have a legal entity
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible working hours (we are a global team of remote first developers operating in European, Indian and US/Canada time zones)
• A good work-life balance. Because we all work better when we are rested
• Top-notch equipment to work with. You just have to bring your talent!
• Well being programs (Headspace app subscription, mental health sessions with invited coaches)
• Growth and learning opportunities

If you think you would be a good fit and even if you do not have 100% of the skills mentioned above, we would still love to hear from you!

If you are curious about YouGov's technology stack, please visit: https://stackshare.io/yougov-plc/platforms

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