Senior Backend Engineer

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💎 Seniority level: This role requires experience with:

📍 Location: United Kingdom, EU

🔍 Industry: InsurTech

🏢 Company: Cytora

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: This role requires experience with:

🪄 Skills: AWSBackend DevelopmentDockerPostgreSQLPythonSQLGitData StructuresREST APIServerlessTerraformMicroservicesJSON

Requirements:

Experience with Git (we use GitHub)
Experience with Python (buzzwords: msgspec, httpx, pydantic, fastapi, structlog, sqlalchemy, alembic, jinja2, pytest, ruff, mypy)
Experience with Mypy (we use mypy, a lot. We also welcome candidates with experience with other static type checkers!)
Experience with Rest APIs
Experience with Relational Databases (we use Postgres)
Experience with Docker (we use Docker to package our code, and docker-compose to run it locally)
Experience with AWS, and more specifically with: AWS S3, AWS Lambda (The vast majority of our backend code is deployed as AWS Lambda functions), AWS API Gateway, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, AWS STEP Functions

Responsibilities:

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