Principal Software Engineer - UK or Europe

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Requirements:

• You possess extensive technical proficiency in Python (7+ years professionally) and are comfortable with a range of libraries and ideally cloud-based architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure etc.).
• Many years of experience in building complex software solutions, ideally in a product company.
• Believer in easy-to-maintain code and identify with modern concepts such as clean coding, automated testing, and continuous deployment.
• Strong systems thinker, able to see the bigger picture at different resolutions.
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and cloud technologies.
• You know start-up life, ideally within a PaaS business.
• You're comfortable taking ownership, accountability, and responsibility.
• Knowledge of OAuth/API user credential handling and feed acquisition from various sources.

Responsibilities:

• Have a hugely visible impact, building towards our first public release and beyond, as a member of a small, tight-knit team, including working closely with the founder.
• Architect and develop scalable solutions, that are reliable, secure and extensible.
• Lead and mentor the engineering team. Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Drive innovation and strategic technical decisions.
• Advise leadership and the product on key technical considerations related to the rapid developments in tech.
• Ensure high-quality code and best practices. Write clean, maintainable and efficient code and ensure code quality through TDD and observability practices.
• Develop RESTful APIs using FastAPI and Pydantic.
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as ORM tools like SQLAlchemy and SQLModel.
• Containerise applications using Docker.
• Participate in Agile XP methodologies like pair programming and code reviews.
• Deploy applications to Google Cloud Platform using Terraform.
• Monitoring and supporting production, staging, research, and demo environments.