Senior Software Engineer (Python)

The role :

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer who is hungry to build - this is a fully greenfield opportunity to develop the architecture of our next-generation platform. We’re 3 years old, and have learned some lessons, and we want these to drive forward our next stage of global growth. You will be solving complex, meaningful problems that help bring our customer and internal-facing OmniPlatform to life.

We’re about to embark on the journey of building our next-generation platform and we need incredible Software Engineers to help us with that mission. This will enable you to work on all elements of the product life-cycle from ideation through to operational delivery. The best talent is everywhere, and our product creates a future where anyone, anywhere on the planet will have the same access to opportunities.

This will involve :

You will put to work your knowledge of best-practice software development principles to build products encompassing global payroll, payments, compliance and benefits across 160 countries.

• Designing, developing, and implementing high-quality software applications to build our new platform's architecture.
• Participating actively during technical decisions and discussions to support our continuous improvement for impact and velocity.
• Challenging our product and team members to continuously develop themselves and our product.
• Contribute to the development of scalable and reliable systems
• Analyze and optimize system performance, scalability, and security
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features
• Mentor junior developers and help them grow their skills
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code

• Extensive experience with Python development.
• Possess a deep understanding of modern software engineering design and development principles
• Advocate of agile principles and practices and an interest in working in a fast-paced environment
• Experience contributing to architectural decisions - you need to care about building solutions that are well designed, built, implemented and that you understand the “why” and “what for”
• Experience in designing and implementing microservices and distributed system architectures
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database design using modern technologies
• Ability to write unit and system tests and automate testing processes
• Experience developing and deploying application into cloud environments.