Senior Python Engineer (UK/Europe Based - Fully Remote)

Senior Python Engineer (UK/Europe based - Fully remote) This is an exciting opportunity to work on a project for our client, a well known global company in the music industry. We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer based in the UK/Europe. At Overloop, we are a close-knit small team, committed to quality code, processes that work, honesty, and seeing things through to completion. A typical working day will involve a 20 minute catch up call to kick off the day, reviewing requirements and/or bug reports, coding, discussing over Slack and Google Hangouts, creating a Github PR, getting the PR reviewed and seeing your code get to production to make a difference for our clients. Overloop is a UK based company, and our team currently works remotely from around Europe, Africa and and South America Are you the right candidate? We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer,  based in the UK or Europe, and able to work UK hours. What you will do: • Build products that empower artists and record labels across the globe • Contribute to all tiers of our clients’ architecture to produce high quality, robust user experiences • Write clean, tested and maintainable code • Work closely with product management to understand and implement client requirements • Design, communicate and execute a vision in collaboration with your team and other teams across the technology organization • Participate in re-architecture, refinement and technical design of various systems • Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning Who you are: Seeking 8+ years of software engineering experience in the following areas: • Implementing distributed systems • Microservice and asynchronous architecture • Python and Javascript • Building responsive frontend applications (our client uses TypeScript, React, and GraphQL) • Database technologies and query languages (our client uses Neo4j, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, and more) • RESTful architecture • AWS Cloud technologies • Log analysis to investigate bugs and performance issues • Unit and integration tests • Agile development practices Nice to have: • Typescript Other requirements and soft skills: • Needs to be able to work to UK working hours • Fluent English speaker (our client is an English speaking company) • Great communication skills • Proactive mindset • Problem solving • Curiosity • Ability to learn quickly • Eagerness This is a full time role / 40 working hours per week. On-call availability may be required for unexpected, infrequent outages. Approximate salary range - £70,000 - depending on experience. Please note that we cannot sponsor visas at this time. The interview process will look like: • You will have a 30 min - 1hour interview with the team at Overloop to talk through your skills and experience and take part in a coding exercise that you will have prepared in advance. • We will then put you forward to our client who will have some additional interview rounds of their own. Please be aware that Overloop does not request an AI-led interview. All conversations throughout, and the interview itself will be with a team member from Overloop. We won't ask for your personal identification documents during your interview process with us. If you receive an email - claiming to be from Overloop - but from an email address ending in anything other than @overloop.io, please be aware that this is not us.