Python Job: Software Engineer - Python

How will you be contributing to Splend? The role and opportunity.

• As a Software Engineer at Splend you will work closely with product and with management to build the tools and services we need to scale the business. Our engineering team is currently based across the UK and Romania, with product, business analysis, and IT operations functions based across the UK, Romania, and Australia.

• Our engineering strategy is focused around the key pillars of customer experience, processes and internal tools, and data. There’s overlap between all of them, but they all play a key role in our objective of enabling the company’s ambitious growth targets.

• Within customer experience, we want to invest heavily in improving the self-service capabilities of our app, as well as the underlying backend architecture. Within processes and internal tools, we need to design and build a suite of new touchpoints to automate existing manual tasks and optimise usability. And for data, we need to build on our existing set of data pipelines to meet the goals of our data strategy, enabling accurate aggregation and dissemination of data from our third-party systems and internal platforms.

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  Examples of recent projects that our engineering team have worked on:

• Building a new service for calculating and reporting on weekly distance driven by our members.
• Relaunching our mobile app.
• Building a new front of house operational interface, backend and frontend, for processing member payment holidays and other key operational requirements.
• Creating a suite of new ETL processes for extracting, cleaning, and aggregating datasets from our revenue, vehicle, and CRM platforms to support centralised reporting.
• Building a suite of backend services to enable the launch of a new referral programme.
  

• Our tech stack consists of a blend of different technologies and languages, reflecting the stack we have inherited as well as strategic choices for new initiatives. Key examples of technologies we work with include:

• Python (backend) and JavaScript (frontend) - our default choice for new implementations

• React Native (for the mobile app)
• Lambda or Elastic Beanstalk (potentially ECS)
• MySQL or DynamoDB
• S3
• SQS
• Cloudwatch
• Bitbucket
• Opsgenie
• AWS (almost always)
• Wordpress
• PHP (legacy stack)

• All our engineers play an important role in helping to define the right technology choices for Splend - for example, we are currently evaluating a gradual transition to an isomorphic environment with shared technologies across frontend and backend.

To succeed:

• You’ll have mid-level experience (3 years at minimum) in a full-time software engineering role, working primarily in Python, although candidates with limited Python experience will be considered provided they can demonstrate the curiosity necessary to work in Python and other languages.
• You'll also need customer focus: passion for consistently providing our customers with great experiences, showing empathy and placing the customer at the centre of everything we do.
• You boast problem solving skills: an aptitude for problem solving, critical thinking and a passion for continuous improvement.
• Relationship building skills: strong relationship building skills with an ability to influence and communicate effectively with stakeholders at levels within and outside of the organisation.
• You'll have Drive: a tenacious nature, a high achiever, and be results driven.
• Our company values are as important to you as they are to us. That means you're Collaborative, Accountable and Respectful (CAR).

What’s in it for you? The benefits:

• A competitive base salary of £60,000+
• Annual performance-based bonus
• 20 days annual leave (excl. bank holidays)
• 5 additional days of fully paid annual leave
• And another day off for your birthday!
• Opportunity to participate in the employee share program
• Private health care
• Health and wellbeing allowance
• Employee Assistance Program