Intermediate Python Developer

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Duties:

• Attend all sessions required in order to understand the business and features being briefed in, in order to be able to contribute to solutioning and development.
• Help execute on functional requirements
• Understand user requirements and assist in gathering requirements
• Complete all tasks in an agreeable time by yourself and your peers to ensure you do not block the work of others
• Learn from your seniors and provide mentorship to Juniors

Technical:

• Ensure that testing protocols are followed that have been set out by their team lead.
• Ensure that all their code is merged via pull request and pull requests are reviewed in a timely manner
• Ensure that code quality takes top priority and development occurs using the SOLID and DRY principles
• Ensure that they produce clean and efficient code
• Ensure that they evaluate their own code for improvement
• Ensure that all work output is tested in a reasonable fashion before handed over to Quality Assurance
• Utilize principles of agile software development to execute tasks on a daily basis

Administration:

• Ensure that they have work assigned every sprint
• Ensure all work assigned to themselves have estimates, appropriate titles and descriptions and that any updates, blockers and/or context are documented on the ticket.
• Ensure confluence is used to document all logic and technical context for work produced and/or explanations of features from the perspective of the individual
• Utilize instant messaging software that is provided by the organization to communicate with the production team on a day to day basis
• Ensure that the they create: code comments, technical documentation, documentation of logic and business rule documentation and that a pull request is only made with he appropriate level of documentation associated
• Work closely with all teams to ensure the platform is achieving the goals set out by business.
• Assist Juniors with where required

Communication:

• Raising any problems preventing themselves and/or their team from getting the job done
• Ensuring that tasks are completed within their allocated sprint and ensure that any hindrance in delivery of tasks/features/projects is communicated promptly to production management
• Ensuring processes being implemented are well understood and can be conveyed to other team members to ensure effective collaboration
• Ensuring that they and their team coordinate directly with other team members to resolve issues, tasks and/or delays quickly
• Ensuring that they have a clear view of priority, that their tickets are updated and they remain productive

Duty:

• Be an advocate for the end-user
• Be assertive when it comes to defending design/implementation decisions in both code and UI
• Know how to discuss improvements or defensive decisions
• Take criticism on the chin and seek to improve rather than becoming defensive
• Always seek to improve their skills
• Think about the future and not only of the present
• Make decisions under instruction and discussion with seniors
• Ensure that all work makes a contribution in some way
• Work in collaboration with the other team members to expand and/or improve on all systems
• Collaborate with other stakeholders to ensure that all work in flight is aligned with business objectives

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years experience as a Python developer
• Experience with the Django Python framework. Any other frameworks beneficial (e.g. Phoenix Framework, Flask, FastAPI)
• Knowledge of overall Back End Architecture
• Experience in testing and creating unit tests
• Experience with TDD or BDD is beneficial, but not a requirement.
• Familiarity with integrating with cloud frameworks (AWS, GCP, Azure) is beneficial
• Fully understand the concepts of a REST API framework and have an understanding of other API frameworks (SOAP, RPC, GraphQL)
• Experience with object-oriented principles, methodologies, and patterns
• Understanding basics of CICD and CICD pipelines within the context of backend
• Understanding of the SOLID and DRY principles
• Willing to learn and work with a team
• Ability to learn quickly

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