Your mission:
Our beautifully designed app, empowers customers with ultra flexible, personalised cover that’s at their fingertips whenever they need it. Starting with car sharing insurance from as little as an hour, we're building a full stack insurance platform with a 100% mobile frontend, capable of covering any risk, over any duration.
As Senior Python Engineer, you will be instrumental in evolving our platform and building new product features. You will help shape the future of our architecture and infrastructure, ensuring our estate is scalable, stable and secure. You will be laser focused on delivering impactful customer experiences without compromising on engineering quality.
What you'll be doing:
- Reviewing our existing backend estate, helping to identify opportunities to improve stability and evolve.
- Designing and building a testable and scalable architecture and infrastructure.
- Working closely with our Mobile engineers to help design RESTful APIs to power our Mobile experiences.
- Be hands-on with coding, best practices, adoption of appropriate tools and technologies.
- Identifying new technologies which can be exploited to help build a best-in-class customer experience.
- Testing as you go, starting with Unit tests and then eventually Integration & E2E testing.
Technologies you’ve mastered:
As our platform is not yet mature, you will have the power to help shape what the architecture and tech stack looks like.
Having said that, here are a few things that we feel help build market leading applications:
- Clean, modular and testable architecture.
- Python 2.7 & 3 and related framework(s) (webapp2, Flask, Django or Django-Rest).
- Google Cloud Platform services or AWS (we currently run on GCP / Firebase).
- DevOps and Infrastructure including CI/CD, monitoring and alerting.
- Unit, Integration, E2E, Regression, Performance and Security testing. TDD experience a bonus but not required.
Working with us:
We're a team of doers and big thinkers who value smarts, aptitude and growth mindset above all else. We don’t care where you studied or even if you studied at all as long as you're exceptional and insanely motivated. We embrace diversity because diverse teams build kick ass products and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
You should apply if:
- You're highly intelligent and innately curious.
- You ship fast and talk straight.
- You'll move heaven and earth to delight customers.
- You're at ease with challenging and being challenged.
- You embrace autonomy and thrive in ambiguity.
Benefits:
- Work with exceptional peers on a really hard and high impact problem.
- Flexible working.
- Macbook Pro and all the tools you could ever need.
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holiday days per year.
- Cool, dog friendly office in Kings Cross.
- Monthly team socials/activities and annual retreats.
- Exclusive friends & family discounts on our awesome insurance products.
- £100 annual Amazon budget towards books to help you develop your skills.