Senior Software Engineer - Python

Company Description With over 25 years experience plus the same enormous passion and ambition we had on day-one were trailblazers in the pet e-commerce industry. Our solutions make over 12 million customers genuinely happier - and thats something we really care about. We work together to continually adapt embracing change and the challenges it brings so that we can keep doing better. Join us and discover a place where your potential meets your passion for pets. Thats the power of plus. Job Description We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Mobile Apps Team bring new features to life and support the evolution of our services and products. You will work closely with the product owner area architect and your team members to clarify business needs and technical requirements and define how to best support them. In close collaboration with other teams your team will introduce new features and improvements to the mobile apps to provide an even better experience for more than 11 millions of our customers As our Senior Backend Software Engineer - You will work with your Team and Product Owner in a challenging Agile environment collaborating closely with other teams. - You will participate in the teams technical/architectural discussions and decisions. - You will develop and continuously deliver applications for one of Europes most successful pet e-commerce platforms. - You will participate in the complete software development life cycle from discovery through coding testing deployment and maintenance. You will learn and grow your skills daily striving for mastery using state-of-the-art technologies and practices such as AWS Microservices Docker and more. At the Mobile Apps our primary responsibility is the iOS and Android apps including the services that power them. This includes all aspects of the customer journey from onboarding personalised home feed wishlist search and catalog to cart and checkout. As a rapidly growing channel the Mobile Apps are crucial to the companys success. Here are several aspects of our team and work environment that contribute to a positive and fulfilling experience - We work in self-organised teams following Scrum methodology respecting and valuing everyones opinion. - We learn from each other and share knowledge through pair programming code reviews and many training opportunities. - We deliver value by developing new features maintaining existing products and improving all the infrastructure we need so we would also like to have a colleague who is cross-functional. - We are committed to delivering high-quality products and believe that continuous delivery clean code and a DevOps mindset are key to achieving this goal. - Our team values a friendly and collaborative environment and we greatly encourage open communication and teamwork. We believe in a team approach and do not assign blame instead we work together to build and maintain the system. - We embrace diversity having colleagues from over 50 countries. This means our working language is English. These are some of the technologies/frameworks/practices we use - Python - Java 11+ Spring framework - CI/CD with Jenkins pipeline - InfluxDB Grafana ELK stack - Docker Kubernetes - Amazon Web Services and cloud deployments (S3 SNS SQS RDS DynamoDB etc.) using tools such as Terraform or AWS CLI - Git Scrum Pair Programming Peer Reviewing Your responsibilities - Participate in solution investigation estimations planning and alignment with other teams. - Design implement deliver and support backend solutions (restful web services) using micro-services architecture. - Work closely with other teams to integrate their solutions into the mobile apps. - Promote and implement test automation (e.g. unit tests integration tests e2e tests and performance tests) - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration development and deployment. - Deploy applications on the cloud using technologies such as Docker Kubernetes AWS and Terraform. - Work closely with the team in an agile and collaborative environment. This will involve code reviews pair programming knowledge sharing and incident coordination. - Maintain existing applications and reduce technical debt. Qualifications Must have - 6+ years of professional experience with Python experience with Java and the Spring Framework is a plus. - Strong understanding of complex architecture landscapes with the ability to independently investigate and implement new features. - Ownership mindset with a strong focus on delivering high-quality solutions experience with unit testing and Test-Driven Development (TDD). - Experience with DevOps tools and practices including container orchestration CI pipelines monitoring and alerting AWS and Kubernetes. - Interest in contributing across the full software development lifecycle (frontend backend testing and DevOps). - Ability to mentor junior colleagues and help structure and clarify requirements. - Empathetic team player with the ability to build effective working relationships. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Nice to have - Experience working within Agile practices and knowledge of Agile values principles. - Experience working with Microservices. - Experience in the e-commerce domain. - Experience with AI-assisted development and modern SDLC tooling- Tools like GitHub Copilot / Copilot Chat - Applying AI for code generation refactoring test automation and documentation - Using AI to accelerate debugging prototyping and architectural decisions