Senior Software Engineer, Python (Remote from Brazil)

About the Role

You will collaborate with product and design teams to build high-value features, drive the evolution of our architecture and system, and ensure the availability, scalability, and efficiency of our services. You will mentor team members, foster technical excellence, and lead cross-functional initiatives.

What will I be delivering?

• Work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic.
• Produce simple, maintainable code while always looking to improve it.
• Define testing strategies and write automated tests.
• Own your code all the way to production with a self-service continuous delivery pipeline and production infrastructure.
• Run what you build using containers orchestration and monitoring technologies.
• Perform code-reviews promptly, regularly and constructively.
• Lead system design and code architecture discussions.
• Foresee the impact of business and technical decisions on performance, reliability and scalability.
• Own the entire software lifecycle.
• Propose and participate in team processes improvements.
• Lead the technical excellence of the system and create plans to mitigate outages.
• Pro-actively mentor other engineers

These are the essential you will need to get an interview:

• Solid understanding of modern testing principles.
• Proven experience working with the majority of our tech-stack.
• High focus on quality, operational excellence and customer experience.
• Extensive experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with a highly distributed microservices architecture.
• Expert knowledge of Python and some of the main web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Django, CherryPy).
• Experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL.
• Profound knowledge of Docker. 

It would be great if you had these:

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to end user.
• Experience participating in mitigating technical debt.
• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS technologies.
• Ability to think abstractly and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems.
• Experience working remotely in a global environment.
• Proactive in identifying risks and taking an impact-centric approach to problem-solving.
• Significant evidence of having maintained and owned monolithic services.
• Visible contribution to open-source projects. 

Tools & Technology

• Collaboration & documentation: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Miro
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Vault, AWS, Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic, GitLab.
• Python (FastAPI, CherryPy, Flask), Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

What can you expect when you become a YouGover? 

• 30 days of annual leave plus 1 extra day off called 'YouTime' to focus on your wellbeing 
• Vacation bonus equal to one-third of your monthly salary
• Work abroad for up to 30 days in a calendar year
• Medical and Dental plan
• 13th month salary
• Growth and learning opportunities

If you think you would be a good fit and even if you do not have 100% of the skills mentioned above, we would still love to hear from you! If you are curious about YouGov's technology stack, please visit: https://stackshare.io/yougov-plc/ platforms  

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