Remote Software Engineer (Python, API, EU, 6-month contract)
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About the Position
... create world-changing products using God-given talents. ..
We’re looking for a Remote Software Engineer (Python, API, EU, 6-month contract) to join our Development team. Our broker platform is the core technology crucial to success – allowing us to evolve underwriting intelligently and unlock massive scale. We’re a multi-disciplined team, bringing together expertise in software and data engineering, full stack development, platform operations, algorithm research, and data science. Our squads focus on delivering high-impact features – we favour a highly iterative, analytical approach.
Project Description
This project team collaborates during regular working hours to develop and deploy a personalized content recommendation system. The team leverages technologies like React/Typescript, Python machine learning, HTML/CSS, Maven, Git/Github, and Kotlin/Java to deliver a high-quality solution meeting user requirements and industry standards.
Responsibilities
- Build robust and scalable software for business critical, web-based applications
- Build eye-catching, functional, efficient, and reusable web and mobile-based sites that drive these web applications
- Design, build, test, document and maintain APIs and integrations
- Ensure quality control using industry standard techniques such as automated testing, pairing, and code review
- Work with the Product team to understand end-user requirements and translate them into an effective technical solution
- Document technical design and analysis work
- Assess current system architecture and identify opportunities for growth and improvement
- Build mock-ups or prototypes to explore and troubleshoot new initiatives
- Work with the Product team and UX designers to review designs, implement new features, and ensure user experience is top level
- Explore new ideas and emerging technologies, develop prototypes quickly
- Uphold the engineering team’s principles and ways of working
Requirements
- Experience as an engineer working across a modern web stack
- Strong software engineering principles (SOLID, DRY, ER modelling)
- Knowledge of back-end development, primarily Python
- Solid API development background
- Knowledge of front-end development, able to build rich user interfaces following a responsive design
- HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross browser compatibility, and accessibility
- Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (primarily, GCP) and infrastructure as code (e.g. K8s and Terraform) to manage the deployment and scale of our software (“You build it, you run it”)
- Familiar with standard logging and monitoring tools used to investigate issues
- Experience with continuous integration, or ideally, continuous delivery
- Strong familiarity with build tools (e.g. Maven) and version control tools (e.g. Git/Github)
- Experience working in agile teams, following Scrum or Kanban, participating in regular ceremonies including stand-ups, planning, and retrospectives
- Experience using project management and workflow tools (e.g. Jira)
- Previous experience of software development in the financial markets, Fintech or Insurtech is preferable
Nice to Have
- Excellent communication skills (both oral and written)
- Pro-active, self-motivated and able to use own initiative
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, negotiation and planning
- Excellent analytical and technical skills
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
We Offer
- Work your way – Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere, with flexible hours that match your natural rhythm.
- Work with global clients – Collaborate directly with international teams to create real impact.
- Make extra cash – Earn bonuses for referring great people or bringing in new business opportunities.
- Great people, no micromanagement – Join a supportive, results-focused team where you’re trusted to do your best work.
This flexibility allows developers:
- A better work-life balance
- Increased productivity
- The ability to work any time around the clock
- Reduction in commute time
- Design your ideal daily schedule.
- Build a career, not just a job.
- Work smarter, not longer.
- More time with family and friends
About the Company
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Headquartered in the State of Washington, Evolve Squads was founded due to the over commoditization of software outsourcing companies, traditional staff augmentation companies and consulting services.Technical hiring managers are continuously inundated from recruiters around the globe with hot candidates coming off a job board or the bench trying to fit a “round peg” developer into a “square box” requirement.Our Professional Fulfilment Network consists of several thousand senior level developers from Central and Eastern Europe including Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary and Georgia...