Python / Django Developer job by Next Phase

Excellent opportunity for a talented Python / Django Developer to join a cloud-based workflow software company. The role offers an excellent salary, development opportunity and the option to work remotely for part of the week. The company is a dynamic organization with a track record of delivering outstanding scientific software, with a strong focus on user experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Within six months you should:

Become familiar with the architecture of our web server, application and our stack:

Python / Django / GraphQL / APIs

Become familiar with the cloud components of our stack:

AWS / Terraform / Docker

Be comfortable working on features and bug fixes for existing parts of the codebase collaboratively with other developers

Within twelve months you should:

Be an active, reciprocal participant in product specification and code review
Be suggesting and implementing upgrades to the cloud deployments
Continually exposed to and participating in:

Project planning and specification / Agile software development lifecycle / Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
Twelve months onwards:

Be confident working independently within the codebase
Take ownership of larger back-end mini-projects and components
Adopt some of the infrastructure responsibilities
Engage with users and customers to deliver improvements across our products and websites

Requirements

Extensive experience of Python and Django, version control (git), Linux environments, and containerised deployment (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, etc)
SQL knowledge (we use MySQL mostly)
Familiarity with TDD software development process
Strong passion and desire to develop exceptional web applications and sites and a drive to develop holistically across web and product development

Other useful experience:

AWS or another cloud computing platform
Agile software development approach
Terraform or similar
Linux/Unix environments
Security/testing knowledge