Senior Software Engineer Python

Reporting to: Software Development Manager

Job title: Senior Software Engineer

Role

The Senior Software Engineer at The Yield will work with the CTO, Software Engineering and Data Science teams to deliver amazing new features and take our product to the next level. You will be a part of a highly creative, agile, human centred development team who values your happiness, growth and personal development.

You ll be a highly motivated systems thinker who is exceptional at what you do. However youre still eager to grow and hone in on your skills as a Senior Software Engineer. We place a heavy emphasis on leaning on your expertise to take on a high level of responsibility while being a role model and mentor to others on the team. You will also be someone who considers the customer impact when making decisions and has a real appetite for learning and growing, both as an individual and teammate

Skills

To be successful in this role you must have:

Minimum 5+ years of strong coding experience in python

Minimum 3+ years of advanced experience building system-critical components in python

Hands on experience designing and building REST APIs and managing the inherent challenges

Strong knowledge and experience of Cloud Technologies (Azure / AWS)

Data Warehouse design, tools and techniques

o Some experience with Databricks - this is our primary data store

o Strong data modelling skills - Entity Relationship Diagrams, normalisation, de-normalisation

o Data loading/Integration from multiple sources

o ETL (Extract Transform Load) process

o Data governance and best practices

o Knowledge of Big Data Concepts such as NoSQL databases

Knowledge and experience of in Azure specifically

o Event Hubs

o Cosmos DB

o Azure API Management

o Azure Kubernetes Service

ADLS Gen 2

Experience building scalable and high performance systems

Good understanding of design patterns across back-end and integration.

Good understanding on Version control tools; Git and Git workflows.

Demonstrated working knowledge of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment).

Experience in complex, large-team technical environments where issues require prompt resolution

and strategic actions.

Strong organisational, communication and collaboration skills to build and strengthen working

relationships.

Experience in leading development following Agile/Scrum framework with knowledge across agile

concepts and methodologies.

Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment of product discovery and development

Ability to take ownership and work independently.

Positive, proactive mindset that is passionate about succeeding and expanding your skillset

Nice to have

o React experience

o Experience with IoT systems and concepts (including RabbitMQ)

o Jenkins

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you are likely to have:

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field

Equivalent skills through experience and on the job learning

Responsibilities

There is no typical working week at the Yield. But here are some of the things you might be working on, dayto-day;

Development, release, and maintenance of our applications according to business needs.

Designing systems focusing on performance, scalability and stability.

Build and deploy infrastructure to support the applications.

Breaking down tough problems into simple, and elegant solutions

Work in a team of software engineers, data science engineers and DevOps engineers

Follow and contribute towards engineering and design guidelines for developing highly scalable,

available and fault tolerant systems.

Lead code reviews documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk

problems

Be an example for thorough, meaningful code reviews

Mentoring less experienced members of the team and reviewing the work of peers.

Ensuring continuous improvement and development, keeping up with and leveraging new breakthroughs and advances in Machine learning, AI and Deep learning

Contributing to a cohesive, diverse, and high-performing team that is genuinely inclusive and genderbalanced

Establishing good internal and external relationships, communicating verbally and in writing with key stakeholders

Being flexible and able to work independently, we need people who will do whatever it takes to get the job done.