Senior Python Software Engineer

Gousto ,
London, Greater London
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About us Gousto, the recipe box that powers sustainability research are on a mission to fuel family life. Technology, Data Science and AI are at the heart of Gousto. The code we write powers every aspect of our business from the recommendation engine powering our e-commerce experience right down to the genetic algorithms used to efficiently route boxes in our warehouse. We use the latest technologies to create simple and elegant solutions to complex problems. Were all in on AWS using many of its services. Our platform and continuous delivery pipeline is fully automated using Cloudformation & Ansible, we release code to production multiple times a day and were in the process of moving our microservices architecture to containers. We build our services in Python, PHP and Node.js with a significant proportion now delivered via AWS Lambda. The Role To support this growth, were looking for experienced and passionate Senior Python Software Engineers to help us take our technology platform to the next level. As a Senior Python Software Engineer at Gousto, youll be working closely with other members of the Engineering team to help shape our architecture, our engineering processes and help to build a massively talented engineering team. Our ideal candidate will have demonstrated an ability to apply their broad and deep technical skills within a commercial setting and will always be striving to solve real business problems using the most elegant technical solutions. We want someone with a solid understanding of what it takes to design and deliver scalable, distributed, cloud-based systems in a highly available manner. Most of all youll be passionate about making Gousto a success. Key Responsibilities Delivering delight to our customers - Youll be working on one of our cross-functional product teams focusing on giving our customers the best possible experience. Day to day your work will involve shipping new features, experimenting with the best possible approach to a problem, supporting other teams or departments, or doing whatever it takes to help us hit our business goals. Building a world-class engineering team We are just at the beginning of our journey and will be looking to significantly invest in engineering talent going forwards. We believe that one of the most important things our senior engineers do is mentor the more junior members of the team. Helping to build a truly great team of engineers will be a hugely important part of what you do. Continuing to evolve our agile development process We currently use Scrum, we like it and we believe it aligns with Goustos delivery led culture. However, we also understand that great agile processes arent written in stone. Were looking for someone whos experienced agile practices and brings a small batch, lean approach to working. Leading our migration to a microservices architecture Were working hard to break our PHP monolith into microservices. Were making real progress but we still have work to do to get us to our goal. Were looking for someone who understands how to identify and split out key functionality, and crucially knows what the common pitfalls are, and how to avoid them! Obsessing over quality & performance As one of our most senior engineers you should obsess over the quality of what the team delivers. Whether that be the quality and maintainability of our code or making sure we identify and squash every bug out there. Were also an e-commerce business, we understand that every millisecond counts when it comes to page speed and we want you to help us make our site fly! Caring for our platform As an engineer in Gousto you will be expected to care about the platform. This includes the life of the code, from the design, the code quality, the care for your components and potentially being part of a rota to provide weekend support every few months during our daily key processes. Requirements * Broad and deep engineering skills primarily with Python. * A proven track record leading technology teams in complex engineering environments. Ideally you'll have experience building software that is used across multiple teams * Experience of working with, and shaping, distributed systems on a public cloud platform. * Worked within a DevOps organisation. At Gousto our developers are responsible for the operational health of the services they develop. We believe this fosters a great culture and are looking for someone who knows how to handle those rare but critical production issues. * Excellent communication and presentation skills, whether to the engineering team, to business stakeholders or to our leadership team Benefits * "Tech 10%" - use every other Friday to sharpen your own skills or spend the time working on some side projects that you're passionate about. * Holidays - 25 days of holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing by a day each year up to 30 days * Option to buy additional days of annual leave up to a total of 30 days * Discounted Gousto boxes - 40% staff disco

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