At a Glance
- Tasks: Design, develop, and test innovative Python applications and web solutions.
- Company: Join Herdify, a dynamic B2B SaaS company shaping consumer brand experiences.
- Benefits: Enjoy stock options, competitive salary, 25 days leave, and annual training allowance.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth in a vibrant, young tech company.
- Why this job: Make a real impact while progressing to a tech lead role in a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: Strong Python and Linux experience, with backend and automation skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Job Description
Full time with 3 days a week in the office.
We are looking for a senior Python Developer/Software Engineer with strong backend and automation experience. You will be responsible for designing, developing and testing software solutions in areas including command line tools/scripts, APIs, and internal/external web applications. This is a hands-on role with the expectation of progression to tech-lead level in the future with hiring/management responsibilities.
Herdify is a growing young B2B Saa S company, building a product to deliver behavioural science to consumer brands.
Working here you'll play a significant role building and shaping the product our customers use.
The role would suit someone who, as well as significant Python development experience, also has some experience in frontend, database design, cloud infrastructure and devops. We work and develop exclusively on
Linux so a high level of familiarity of this is essential both on the Desktop and server.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and test Python based applications
- Webserver development using Fast API
- Design and maintenance of No SQL and SQL databases
- Data scraping/cleaning/processing using Python
- Support Linux based servers
- Containerisation of applications
- Use test driven development to produce high quality, well documented and secure software
Essential experience
- Significant experience at senior developer level.
- Previous experience as tech lead/experience managing a small team of developers.
- Strong Python across backend, web application, api, automation, CLI and data processing development.
- Strong Linux for development, testing and deployment.
- Strong experience of developing web applications using Fast API (or Django, Flask etc.)
* Developing websites using HTML/CSS/Javascript. - Good knowledge of AWS (S3, Dynamodb, EC2, ECS, Cognito, Dynamo DB, Firewalls, Load balancers, Route53) Desired experience
- Working with a variety of data formats such as CSV, JSON, Parquet etc. at high volume and complexity.
- Comfortable working with NOSQL and SQL databases (SQLite and Dynamo DB in particular)
* Writing moderately complicated SQL scripts. - Containerising applications using Docker/Docker-compose
- Use of Git based workflows
- Understanding of devops best practices
- Creating and querying REST APIs
- Use of IAM for internal and external users
- Able to manage your own workload as and when required
- Convert high level requirements into detailed designs for implementation
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with other teams in the business
- Bonus points for
- Experience with data science libraries (pandas, numpy, geopandas)
* Experience with visualisation libraries (d3, folium, plotly etc.)
* Web development using htmx, jinja2, Bootstrap, CSS and Selenium - Other container systems such as Podman
- Infrastructure as code Cloudformation/Terraform etc.
- Databases such as Mongo DB, Duck DB
- Experience working in small teams on early stage software
- Applying
- If you have most of the things we are looking for please apply anyway.
- We also value diverse experience outside the areas listed as well.
- What you'll get
- Stock options
- Competitive salary (£60-70K depending on experience)
* 25 days’ annual leave + public holidays - Annual training allowance
Candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.
- Our interview procedure
- Stage 1 - Introduction meeting
- Teams call
- Up to 1 hour
- Your chance to tell us all about yourself and why you would like to work for Herdify.
- Learn more about what we do at Herdify
- Stage 2 - Technical interview with tasks
- In person in Bristol
- Up to 2 hours
- A more in depth dive into your technical skills
- Live coding exercise on one of our PCs to see how you would deal with some of the problems we have encountered at Herdify.
- Your chance to ask us more questions
- Stage 3 - Technical and team work interview
- In person in Bristol
- Up to 2 hours
- Follow up from live coding exercises
- Team fit assessment
- Additional questions from both sides
Senior Python/Software Engineer with progression to tech lead. employer: Herdify
Herdify is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and innovative work culture, perfect for those looking to make a significant impact in the B2B SaaS space. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, you will have the opportunity to progress to a tech lead role while enjoying competitive benefits such as stock options, a generous annual leave policy, and an annual training allowance. Located in Bristol, you'll be part of a collaborative team that values diverse experiences and encourages hands-on involvement in shaping our product.
