Senior Software Engineer, Python

About the Role

You will collaborate with product and design teams to build high-value features, drive the evolution of our architecture and system, and ensure the availability, scalability, and efficiency of our services. You will mentor team members, foster technical excellence, and lead cross-functional initiatives.

What will I be delivering?

• Work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic.

• Produce simple, maintainable code while always looking to improve it.

• Define testing strategies and write automated tests.

• Own your code all the way to production with a self-service continuous delivery pipeline and production infrastructure.

• Run what you build using containers orchestration and monitoring technologies.

• Perform code-reviews promptly, regularly and constructively.

• Lead system design and code architecture discussions.

• Foresee the impact of business and technical decisions on performance, reliability and scalability.

• Own the entire software lifecycle.

• Propose and participate in team processes improvements.

• Lead the technical excellence of the system and create plans to mitigate outages.

• Pro-actively mentor other engineers

These are the essential you will need to get an interview:

• Solid understanding of modern testing principles.

• Proven experience working with the majority of our tech-stack.

• High focus on quality, operational excellence and customer experience.

• Extensive experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Experience with a highly distributed microservices architecture.

• Expert knowledge of Python and some of the main web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Django, CherryPy).

• Experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL.

• Profound knowledge of Docker.

It would be great if you had these:

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to end user.

• Experience participating in mitigating technical debt.

• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS technologies.

• Ability to think abstractly and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems.

• Experience working remotely in a global environment.

• Proactive in identifying risks and taking an impact-centric approach to problem-solving.

• Significant evidence of having maintained and owned monolithic services.

• Visible contribution to open-source projects.

**Tools & Technology **

• Collaboration & documentation: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Miro

• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Vault, AWS, Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic, GitLab.

• Python (FastAPI, CherryPy, Flask), Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

What can you expect when you become a YouGover?

• 30 days of annual leave plus 1 extra day off called 'YouTime' to focus on your wellbeing

• Vacation bonus equal to one-third of your monthly salary

• Work abroad for up to 30 days in a calendar year

• Medical and Dental plan

• 13th month salary

• Growth and learning opportunities

If you think you would be a good fit and even if you do not have 100% of the skills mentioned above, we would still love to hear from you! If you are curious about YouGov's technology stack, please visit: https://stackshare.io/yougov-plc/ platforms

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Company Description and Culture

YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks.

We speak daily to our panel of over 27 million registered members to understand opinion and behaviors around the world. We have a strong reputation as a source of accurate data and we’re trusted by the world’s biggest brands to get it right, making us the most quoted market research source in the world.

Why join YouGov?

Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.

Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

Life at YouGov

We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.

We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.

Equal Opportunity Employer

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.

Data Privacy

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