Senior Python Engineer, PHP

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Develop, maintain, and scale platform-level back-end services to enhance and support our core products.

• Utilize these capabilities to create and implement new features within the core Arbor product suite.

• Take ownership of the successful delivery of high-impact features, significantly contributing to the evolution of Arbor products.

• Lead the development and execution of advanced testing for both new and existing features, ensuring high test coverage and reliability standards.

• Proactively identify, take responsibility for, and resolve critical system bugs and issues by employing advanced problem-solving skills and extensive system knowledge.

• Uphold high standards of code quality through thorough and constructive code reviews, ensuring solutions are well-tested, scalable, and maintainable.

• Write well-architected, efficient, and scalable code by applying leading industry design patterns and methodologies.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation and diagrams that promote best practices and facilitate clear communication.

• Collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, QA Engineer, and Product Manager to fulfill feature requests.

• Assist the Engineering Manager with interviews, scrum ceremonies, and implementing strategies to enhance product quality and lead time, demonstrating a thorough understanding of the development lifecycle and processes.

• Support the Tech Lead in crafting technical roadmap solution designs, identifying improvement opportunities, prioritizing, and executing technical debt reduction.

• Serve as a role model for technical excellence through code reviews, pair programming, and actively mentoring and coaching mid-level and junior engineers in best practices, promoting knowledge transfer within the team.

• Actively lead and engage in tech talks, workshops, and team-based learning initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in building back-end services using Python and/or PHP.

• Comfortable working with both technologies over the long term.

• Experience with enterprise solutions and large-scale systems.

• Demonstrated understanding of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) along with best practices for data modeling and performance optimization.

• Proven track record in managing large technical projects and delivering high-quality, impactful results with minimal supervision.

• Proven experience in designing and writing APIs and services within a service-oriented environment.

• Effectively applies best practices and software engineering principles (e.g., SOLID, DRY).

• Demonstrated knowledge of software best practices, including refactoring, writing clean code, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Test Automation.

• Familiar with Scrum methodology or other agile development processes.

• Exhibits leadership through collaboration, mentorship, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, able to articulate clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• A motivated team player who actively engages in discussions and readily offers support to others.

• Nice to Have: Previous professional experience building back-end services in both PHP and Python.

• Domain experience within the UK Ed-Tech sector.

• PHP: Laminas/Symfony; Python: Fast API.

• Experience in service decomposition.

🏝️ Benefits

• A dedicated wellbeing team that champions initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch and learns, manager training, mental health first aid training, and much more!

• 32 days of holiday (in addition to Bank Holidays), consisting of 25 days of annual leave plus 7 extra company-wide days given during Easter, Summer, and Christmas.

• Life Assurance paid at 3x annual salary.

• Comprehensive wellness benefits provided by AIG Smart Health, which includes a 24/7 virtual GP service, mental health support, counseling, and personalized health checks.

• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa.

• Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows.

• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity leave (6 weeks full pay).

• Five free return-to-work maternity coaching sessions to help you transition during this exciting time of life!

• Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching).

• All roles support flexible working, and we are open to discussing what this means for you.

• Social committees that organize team, office, and company-wide events to bring people together and celebrate success.

• Dedicated professional development training budget for CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships, etc.

• Opportunity to volunteer with a charity of your choice for one day each year.

• Dog-friendly offices!