Python Job: Product Engineer (Part time)

London HQ | 50-100

Our ‘Why’, ‘How’, and ‘What’

ihorizon is your accounting partner to accelerate your business growth. Gathering years of

experience and expertise in scaling tech businesses, and weaving them into impressive and

intelligent finance solutions, we specialise in accounting and innovative finance solutions for

entrepreneurs and startups in the tech industry.

Our vision is to be the founder's choice for startup accounting. How? By providing no-nonsense

finance solutions, we share knowledge & innovation across our network and enable the best of

the world’s startups to achieve their own vision.

Do you want to work in a team of motivated and talented individuals and partner with some of the world’s fastest-growing tech startups such as Gousto, This!, and Patch? We put partnership at the heart of everything we do, that’s why you will interact with Founders, Financial Directors, CFOs, COOs and Office Managers right from the start and help businesses grow from within.

About us

We’re a product-led professional services firm specialising in accounting for high growth startups. We’re currently building out our internal accountancy platform to deliver bespoke experiences for our clients to improve efficiencies and save our clients time.

We’re looking for a Product Engineer with good full-stack experience, with a focus on frontend development using HTML/CSS and limited JS. You’ll be joining a growing team of product engineers and managers to build out the platform.

A day in the life of a Product Engineer

You’ll be developing and shaping the future of our suite of web apps. From small internal tools to mission-critical customer-facing apps you’ll work with product managers and team leaders to build products that drive innovation and streamline processes. You have a passion for designing and building beautiful interfaces and thoughtful interactions. You obsess over the customer experience and will help scope technical requirements, design wireframes and work with other developers to execute on those requirements. You’ll also perform code reviews and work with other developers to resolve production issues.

The Role & Responsibilities

• Develop new features and maintain existing ones

• Work with product managers to scope technical requirements

• Perform code reviews, ensuring clean code practices

• Write high-quality tests

• Ensure best practices for security are followed when developing applications

Sound good? Here's what we need from you

Essential skills

• 3+ years of experience working as a product engineer

• Experience in delivering web products from idea to deployment

• Strong experience working and developing in a full-stack environment

• Strong experience working with Git and issue tracking tools

• Strong experience with Python and Django

• Strong experience with building frontend interfaces (HTML, CSS and limited JS)

• Strong time management, organisational and planning skills

• Excellent communication skills - in person and written

Our tech stack

Our modular monolith is a Python web application built in Django. Our frontend components are all built using HTML and Django templates utilising our existing design system. For infrastructure we use Northflank (similar to Heroku) so developers can focus on building applications, not running infrastructure.