Python Developer

Who are we?

Our client is breaking down the barriers that stop Europe’s 20 million small businesses from accessing finance. Traditional bank loans have slow application processes, inflexible terms and burdensome criteria. In contrast, we use cutting-edge technology to offer flexible access to credit with a five minute application process and a decision in hours.

Since 2012, we’ve lent over £900 million to over 50,000 businesses across Europe. Our customers include everything from cafés to car dealers, salons to solicitors. Along the way we have built a sophisticated technology platform, won numerous awards and grown a fun, and vibrant team.

However, we’re still near the start of our journey – our aim is to finance a million small businesses within a decade and so we need more smart, hands-on people to help us reach this goal.

About the role:

We are looking for passionate developers with an eagerness to work in a collaborative environment to build an awesome product that will help SME’s across the world.

We run our Django-powered site on AWS, use asynchronous tools (Twisted, Celery) for time-consuming tasks and scientific libraries (numpy, scipy, pandas) for risk aspects. Application orchestration is done with Docker and Ansible and our monitoring is set up using StatsD, Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana.

REQUIREMENTS
*Experience developing Python (we use Python)*
*Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (ideally MongoDB and PostgreSQL)
*Knowledge of web frameworks (we use Django)
*Demonstrable experience creating robust, clever and scalable applications
*Experience doing it all: designing, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining
*Ability to manage projects, priorities, deadlines and deliverables (being autonomous is *extremely important for us)
***If you don’t know Python but are familiar with programming languages like Erlang, Haskell, Scala, Lisp, Clojure, or F#, we would still be keen to hear from you.

What’s life like as a a member of our team?

• Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership
• Stock options
• Enhanced maternity and shared parental leave
• A workplace nursery tax benefit scheme
• 25 days holiday per year and an extra day off on your birthday
• Extra leave if you want to travel or study
• Special celebrations for anniversaries and long service including sabbatical
• Flexible working
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• And to make sure we all keep learning, we offer;
• Tickets to tech conferences across Europe
• Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers
• A calendar of meetups we host at our office
• Access to learning platforms like Treehouse if you want to learn to code.