Senior Python Engineer (UK/Europe based - Fully remote) in UNITED KINGDOM

Senior Python Engineer (UK/Europe based - Fully remote)

This is an exciting opportunity to work on a project for our client, a well known global company in the music industry.

We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer based in the UK/Europe. At Overloop, we are a close-knit small team, committed to quality code, processes that work, honesty, and seeing things through to completion. A typical working day will involve a 20 minute catch up call to kick off the day, reviewing requirements and/or bug reports, coding, discussing over Slack and Google Hangouts, creating a Github PR, getting the PR reviewed and seeing your code get to production to make a difference for our clients.

Overloop is a UK based company, and our team currently works remotely from around Europe, Africa and and South America

Are you the right candidate?

We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer,  based in the UK or Europe, and able to work UK hours.

What you will do:

• Build products that empower artists and record labels across the globe
• Contribute to all tiers of our clients’ architecture to produce high quality, robust user experiences
• Write clean, tested and maintainable code
• Work closely with product management to understand and implement client requirements
• Design, communicate and execute a vision in collaboration with your team and other teams across the technology organization
• Participate in re-architecture, refinement and technical design of various systems
• Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning

Who you are:

Seeking 8+ years of software engineering experience in the following areas:

• Implementing distributed systems
• Microservice and asynchronous architecture
• Python and Javascript
• Building responsive frontend applications (our client uses TypeScript, React, and GraphQL)
• Database technologies and query languages (our client uses Neo4j, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, and more)
• RESTful architecture
• AWS Cloud technologies
• Log analysis to investigate bugs and performance issues
• Unit and integration tests
• Agile development practices

Nice to have:

• Typescript

Other requirements and soft skills:

• Needs to be able to work to UK working hours
• Fluent English speaker (our client is an English speaking company)
• Great communication skills
• Proactive mindset
• Problem solving
• Curiosity
• Ability to learn quickly 
• Eagerness

This is a full time role / 40 working hours per week.

On-call availability may be required for unexpected, infrequent outages. 

Approximate salary range - £70,000 - depending on experience.

Please note that we cannot sponsor visas at this time.

The interview process will look like:

• You will have a 30 min - 1hour interview with the team at Overloop to talk through your skills and experience and take part in a coding exercise that you will have prepared in advance.
• We will then put you forward to our client who will have some additional interview rounds of their own. 

Please be aware that Overloop does not request an AI-led interview. All conversations throughout, and the interview itself will be with a team member from Overloop. We won't ask for your personal identification documents during your interview process with us. If you receive an email - claiming to be from Overloop - but from an email address ending in anything other than @overloop.io, please be aware that this is not us.