Technical Lead - Python/Django

We are looking for an experienced Technology Team Lead who is passionate about delivering high quality software solutions and embraces the challenges presented by the ever-changing landscape of web application development. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team leading development on our client facing web application (GRiD) and will be involved in leading all areas of the software development life cycle. As a Team Lead in the Technology Team, you will be empowered to drive both technical and user-focused improvements to our products and solutions; continually improving our tooling and delivering sustainable and effective software solutions.

About the Day-to-Day Responsibilities of the Role

• Overseeing architectural improvements to our backend systems in line with our forward planning and technology strategy
• Ownership of our APIs used by both internal and external clients, enabling data integrations with Maplecroft data.
• Enabling new and existing applications to capitalized on our innovative data management and ETL platform.
• Manage an agile team and lead requirements gathering, refinement, and delivery of user-focused improvements.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with management and other team leads on technical projects.
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable well-tested code that meets user requirements.
• Peer review other developers' work in a thorough and constructive manner
• Work collaboratively with other Developers, Project Owners, UX, designers, and QA engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Look for and drive opportunities to improve code quality, development processes, and team satisfaction
  
  

Qualifications

About You and How You Can Excel in This Role

For our products we use a variety of backend technologies with Django being the key framework used to provide the API to our Angular based user interface. For this role, you will need to have a deep understanding of both Python and Django and be excited to apply that knowledge in creation of applications and APIs to fulfill the requirements of our planned SaaS platform in 2025. You will be eager to understand the full set of application technologies already applied in existing applications and make best use of that extensive toolkit and broad range of AWS services in building out new features or products.

Required
• Industry experience in working with Agile software development practices
• To show leadership experience in prior projects or teams
• A deep understanding and commercial experience of Python and Django
• Good understanding of frontend web technologies and how web browsers behave and perform
• Very knowledgeable in REST APIs, both in authoring and consuming
• Good level of experience in SQL and database interaction
• Knowledge and experience in applying Web Security best practices
• Good understanding of git and working collaboratively on team-level code bases

Nice to haves
• Strong TypeScript, JavaScript and HTML
• Cloud (in particular AWS) experience
• Use of serverless technologies
• Docker / Containerization experience
• Node.js experience
• NoSQL database experience

What we offer:

• Structured planning for career professional development
• Comprehensive training and onboarding
• Modern development practices and standards
• Flexible working
• AWS certification supported and funded
• Bonus scheme
• Private health insurance
• Holiday purchase/sell scheme
• Save as You Earn Verisk share scheme