Lead Python Developer
Quant Capital
Overview
In this Lead Python Django Developer role, you will drive the architecture and technical direction of a greenfield, enterprise-grade platform for social data. You’ll work closely with founders, designers, and engineers to shape features and scale the stack, evangelize new technologies, and contribute to a fast-paced, innovative start-up culture. The position offers growth, ongoing training, and day-one equity options in a London-based company.
Pay / Benefits- Options from day 1
- Excellent salary and benefits package
- Ongoing training
- Structured career path
- London office location
- Possible career growth opportunities
- Evaluate and select technologies to implement product features
- Collaborate with founders, UI/UX designers and technical staff on product development
- Support recruitment, training, and organization of development staff
- Evangelise and prototype new technologies; help shape the architecture
- Participate in agile development and adapt to evolving requirements
- 3+ years of commercial Python and Django development
- Strong knowledge of software design patterns and OOP
- Keen to write clean, well-structured code (PEP8)
- Fan of best practices & TDD
- Good knowledge of Docker and cluster orchestration
- Good knowledge of RabbitMQ/Celery
- Good knowledge of Postgres (RDBMS) and Elasticsearch (NoSQL)
- Good understanding of RESTful APIs
- Good knowledge of Git
- Exposure to NumPy, SciPy, pandas, IPython and related Python libraries (advantage)
- Experience with large data sets and data manipulation (advantage)
- Collaborative mindset
- Proactive problem solver
- Strong communication with cross-functional teams
- Python
- Django
- Twisted
Reference: WJ-747_30169336