Lead Python Engineer
proSapient is the world’s first Primary Research platform, allowing investors and consultants to make smarter decisions
Through proSapient, you can locate and conduct interviews with industry experts from a variety of expert networks, create and deploy powerful B2B/B2C surveys consume data from research providers.
Our clients include hedge funds, private equity and professional services firms, where our experts provide insight.
We are looking for an experienced Python Engineer to eventually lead one of our development squads and support our advanced search and conference platform. The role can be in the UK, Kyiv or remote in Europe.
The Role:
- Join as a senior engineer, with the goal of leading a team once you are comfortable with our processes and codebase
- Perform as the Team Lead for one of our engineering squads.
- Working with business leaders to architect appropriate technical solutions to business problems
- Managing a team of engineers of varying seniorities and helping them work as a team and build their knowledge base
- The first major project will be an expansion of our search algorithms (passed experience is necessary)
- Provide product demonstrations and create marketing materials to provide knowledge at scale
Key Skills needed for this role:
- Experience with building easy-scale, fault-tolerant SOA applications
- Experience with building apps that heavily uses search algorithms and search engines (e.g elasticsearch, solr, sphinx)
- Experience with building infrastructure for monitoring runtime metrics for app, crash analysis and reporting.
- Perfect Communication – You are the linchpin of the development team, ensuring the product manager manages the day-to-day tasks and your team are free of roadblocks
- Teacher – you will impart your wisdom onto your colleagues and over time support their development into exceptional engineers
Key Experience needed for this role:
- You have mastered the Python language and are likely conversational in a number of other coding languages (7+ years as a guideline)
- Complex architecture design
- Experience running a team and the high levels of communication that are necessary
- Experience in building search systems using basic keyword matching as well as advanced search algorithmsython
Requirements
The key skills required for the role includes:
– Perfect Communication – You are the linchpin of the development team, ensuring the product manager manages the day-to-day tasks and your team are free of roadblocks
– Teacher – you will impart your wisdom onto your colleagues and over time support their development into exceptional engineers
The key experience required for this role includes:
– Extensive experience with Python – you will have mastered the Python language and are likely conversational in a number of other coding languages (7+ years as a guideline)
– Experience with complex architecture design
– Experience managing a team, with excellent communication skills in doing so
– Experience in building search systems using basic keyword matching as well as advanced search algorithms
– Experience with building easy-scale, fault-tolerant SOA applications
– Experience with building apps that heavily uses search algorithms and search engines (e.g elasticsearch, solr, sphinx)
– Experience with building infrastructure for monitoring runtime metrics for app, crash analysis and reporting.
Benefits
In return, we can offer:
- A competitive salary
- A truly supportive & encouraging culture around great health – mentally, physically and emotionally, with multiple employee health & assistance programs
- An outlined promotion path with rapid opportunity for career-growth and development
- A generous holiday allowance
- Flexible hybrid-working or remote working
- Team outings and quarterly corporate outings
- Exposure working at one of the most innovative and forward-thinking global start-ups globally!
This is a really great opportunity for a driven, resilient and creative individual to join a rapidly growing & successful start-up! If this sounds like you, then please apply below!
At proSapient, we are an equal opportunity employer. As such, we offer equal employment opportunities without regard to race, colour, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status and other protected class characteristics. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Due to the regulated nature of our clients, all successfully offered candidates are subjected to thorough screening & pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS Check, which can affect the outcome of any offer of employment.
