Lead Backend Engineer at byrd

As Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Technical Leadership:

  • Provide technical leadership to your team: review code, formulate solutions, and offer technical guidance and mentorship.
  • Lead architecture discussions and contribute to enhancing the developer experience.
  • Oversee the implementation and testing of solutions.

  Project Ownership:

  • Own business requirements and work independently to solve problems.
  • Understand business needs, provide estimations, translate them into technical requirements, and lead implementation.

  Development and Maintenance:

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services and microservices architecture.
  • Utilise our tech stack: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Marshmallow, Postgres, RQ, SQS, GitHub.
  • Participate in a weekly on-call rota with other backend developers (normal business hours only)

  Collaboration and Communication:

  • Communicate clearly and effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Work within a cross-functional team of developers and product managers to design features and solutions for our warehouse fulfilment software.

  Infrastructure and Monitoring:

  • Manage and deploy microservices using Kubernetes on AWS
  • Use monitoring and logging tools such as Sentry, Grafana, and Loki.

  Agile Practices:

  • Embrace and implement agile methodologies, CI/CD, and modern development practices.

This is what you will need to succeed 

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of backend development experience, with at least 3 years in Python.
• Proven ability to own business requirements and independently solve complex problems.
• Past experience with agile practices, CI/CD, deployment, and monitoring.

Technical Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Python, Flask and Postgres.
• Experience with RQ and SQS.
• Familiarity with GitHub and version control practices.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture.
• Experience with Kubernetes on AWS and containerised applications.
• Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools such as Sentry, Grafana, and Loki.

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication skills: ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Ability to mentor and lead mid-level developers.
• Comfortable with honest feedback - you are not afraid to give and receive it.
• Constructive “can do” attitude to problem-solving