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

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.