Senior Backend Engineer (Python) - Poland, Remote

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Requirements:

• 5+ years experience (Python/Django is a plus)
• Ability to work UK working hours (+/- 3 hours)
• Strong computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms and software design patterns
• Experience in relational database management and SQL query optimisation
• Passion for writing clean, modular, well-commented, readable and reusable code
• Ability to think out of the box with a can-do attitude to get things done efficiently
• Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate technical concepts in plain English
• Experience in writing technical documentation.
• Experience in managing more junior team members

Responsibilities:

• Work with product owners, engineering managers, user interface designers and other software engineers to write technical documents that identify software project requirements
• Write well-formulated, testable and readable code using appropriate software design patterns
• Design, build and maintain APIs, microservices and data pipelines
• Design, normalise and optimise relational databases
• Write complex SQL queries to get data from the database
• Optimise APIs and database queries to improve speed of execution
• Participate in code reviews
• Debug and fix bugs across our applications
• Review, maintain and refactor existing code to meet the requirements for improved or new features
• Write technical documentation of code, algorithms and APIs
• Help in drafting of end-user manuals