Senior Python Developer

Overview

Specialist role Developer

Summary of the work We're looking for a Senior Python Developer to join a central Government Service. You'll be working in a multi disciplinary agile team, continuously improving the end-to-end user journey for buyers and suppliers and architecting the platform to make it easier to open and award new framework iterations.

Latest start date 27/06/2016

Expected contract length 3 months + 3 month extension (if required)

Region London

About the work

Who the specialist will work with

Front & back end developers, technical architect, quality assurance, interaction designers, user researchers, content designers, product managers, user support, performance analyst, delivery managers, service manager

What the specialist will work on

Website software development work for the Digital Marketplace to: 

1. Deliver and continuously improve on the end-to-end user journey, from supplier submissions through to contract award 
2. Architect the service to make it easier to open and award new frameworks

Work setup

Address where the work will take place  - Central London - Holborn 

Working arrangements Monday to Friday. 7.5 hours per day + lunch time. Must start work by 09:45 and not end before 16:00. Mainly based from our office in Holborn, with opportunities to work from home part time.

Security clearance Minimum Baseline Personnel Security Standard

Skills and experience

Essential skills and experience

• 3 years experience as a python developer (Scores 5)
  
• 2 years experience developing web applications in Python (Scores 5)
• Experience of pair programming (Scores 5)
• Experience of working in an agile team (Scores 5)
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques (Scores 5)
• Familiarity with working practices such as TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps (Scores 5)
• Awareness of HTTP, databases, backups, CDNs and search, and of Unix-like operating systems, eg Linux and/or Mac OS experience of working on, or with web technologies (Scores 5)
• Basic understanding about web security (Scores 5)
• Experience of using testing to validate solutions (Scores 5)
• Current / most recent role mainly uses Python rather than other programming languages (Scores 5)
• Current / most recent role mainly as a developer rather than a manager (Scores 5)

Nice-to-have skills and experience

• 5 years experience as a Python developer (Scores 5)
• 3 years experience developing web applications in Python (Scores 5)
• Experience of AWS (EC2 and RDS) (Scores 5)
• Experience of PostgreSQL (Scores 5)
• Experience of AWS CloudFormation (Scores 5)
• Experience of SQLAlchemy (Scores 5)
• Experience of Flask (Scores 5)

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