Python Developer

Your Role: Python Developer

Reporting of the Role

This role reports to Lead Python Developer

We're looking for a multi-skilled, adaptable developer with a passion for high quality code to join our established development team.

• Getting to work on some outstanding products that get used by over 30 million people.

• Work in a team that this is a fun, creative and satisfying place for developers to work.

• Work in a team where we believe in code reviews, paired programming, continuous integration, hack time and investing in developers to make them better.

• Contributed to delivering phenomenal solutions for delivering the latest innovations to our digital products.

• Proven a collaborative approach to delivering solutions.

• Shown passion to learn new things and to share knowledge with others.

• Followed sound architectural and software engineering principles in your solutions.

• You will be working on web services that drive Global Player and our public-facing radio websites. You’ll be working on a suite of digital products that attracts over 30 million unique visitors a month!

• APIs and tools that drive our mobile apps, and other devices such as Alexa and Google Home.

• Internal editorial and content systems that feed all our public-facing products.

The ideal candidate will be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:

• A multi-skilled developer who is happy to step out of their comfort zone and learn new technologies.

• Strong commercial development experience using Python.

• A strong grasp of OOP fundamentals and RESTful APIs.

• Familiarity with VCS, preferably Git.

• Experience working in a sociable, cross-functional team.

• A dedication to testing – experience of writing and maintaining unit tests; mocking frameworks and an enthusiasm for test-driven development.

• Experience working with relational database systems and ORM frameworks.

• Understanding of the importance of Continuous Integration.

Bonus points if you tick any of the following boxes...

• Experience working with Django, Flask or Sanic.

• Experience with GraphQL.

• Experience with asyncio.

• Experience scaling web systems to cope with millions of users.

• Experience of agile practices.

• Experience with using Docker in your development process.

• Familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with ElasticSearch or other Lucene-based search servers