backend

Medbelle

<div><h1>About this role</h1>As the first digital hospital, we are rebuilding the healthcare experience from scratch. This is what allows us to provide patients with an outstanding level of care that we would love to experience ourselves.Backed by renowned international investors, we are helping an ever-growing number of patients receive the highest quality of medical procedures the UK has to offer. To help us maintain this level of care, we need to expand our Tech team with highly motivated and passionate people who thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.As a Senior Backend Developer, you will be a crucial part of fulfilling our mission to raise the standard of secondary care and make it accessible to all. Together with the rest of the team, you will create a new way of providing simpler, smarter, and more personal healthcare for everybody in the UK and beyond.  You will contribute to our vision by empowering surgeons and supporting staff to make timely and effective decisions, by delivering top-of-the-line, performant and reliable digital solutions, therefore ensuring the best-in-class patient and provider experience. <h1>What you will do</h1><ul><li>Scale and improve our existing backend features, services, and data sources.</li><li>Set up and maintain performance monitoring systems to enable continuous improvement strategies.</li><li>Define and implement initiatives to improve our backend application development workflows and tooling.</li><li>Help deploy and maintain a secure, robust, scalable platform and infrastructure.</li><li>Improve and maintain our testing setup to ensure reliable and predictable changes to our systems.</li><li>Document company software engineering guidelines and best practices related to backend development.</li><li>Collaborate with Product managers to define our development sprints.</li><li>Collaborate with Business Intelligence data engineers for data structure alignments and data quality decisions.</li><li>Collaborate with your team members and other departments to define and implement efficient and scalable solutions that bring value to our customers and business.</li><li>Mentor other backend and full-stack engineers on best practices related to your field of expertise</li><li>You will report directly to the Head of Engineering </li></ul> Key components of our backend stack:<ul><li>Python + Django with PostgreSQL</li><li>Django Q for task queueing</li><li>Graphene for GraphQL</li><li>Elasticsearch and Redis</li></ul> <h1>Who you are</h1><ul><li>6+ years of experience as a software developer (with at least 4 years of experience in backend development using Python) </li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are necessary</li><li>Ability to debug/profile performance problems, identify bottlenecks and provide scalable solutions</li><li>You have built several performant production-level APIs using Django, Django RESTful framework, and, most importantly, GraphQL</li><li>SQL competency, especially using PostgreSQL.</li><li>Professional fluency in English</li></ul> <h1>Bonus points</h1><ul><li>Experience with headless CMS solutions or hands-on experience with Wagtail</li><li>Experience working with SQLAlchemy</li><li>Experience working with Docker</li><li>Familiarity with AWS deployment pipelines</li><li>Experience working in startups or other high-growth environments</li><li>Experience in the healthcare industry</li></ul> <h1>What we offer</h1><ul><li>Competetive salary, bonus, benefits and holiday allowance </li><li>A hybrid-remote working setup that allows for flexibility week by week (as well as a 4-week per year fully remote allowance where our team can choose to work from anywhere in the world (with a stable internet connection!)</li><li>An Urban Sports Club (All-sports-in-one) membership which provides our team with a flexible sports flatrate. </li><li>A subscription to Headspace Meditation App help our team to stress less, unwind and practice mindfulness</li><li>Mindsurance mental health support subscription. </li><li>Employee Training &amp; Development budget to help you continuously learn and grow</li><li>German Lessons to help our team integrate and settle in Berlin better</li><li>Corporate Discount Benefits that include innumerable subscriptions and discounts to brands, including fashion and technology</li><li>Quarterly Awards to reward exemplary achievements and performances</li><li>Regular team events including BBQs, Boat Parties, Stammtisch, Sports Days, Pub Quizzes, an annual team offsite and Summer and Christmas parties</li><li>An Office brunch every Tuesday, Friday beers, wines and snacks and fortnightly - delivered sustainably from GoZero</li><li>Team Lunches to explore Kreuzberg’s culinary delights with our colleagues. We also collaborate with local start-up GoTiger App to provide us with weekly rotations of exciting Asian food for your enjoyment throughout the week.</li></ul> <h1>Further information</h1> <h1>The application process</h1>Total duration: 2-3 weeks We believe in giving everyone an equal chance. We want to find out if you have the necessary skills, independent of your background, gender, ethnicity, age etc. and take active steps to reduce any potential bias in our recruitment process.  1. Screening: After you submit your application materials we will review them to gauge if they meet our requirements. We aim to get back to you as soon as possible. 2. Recruiter call: If you pass the initial screening we will be in touch to schedule an initial video call. The goal of this initial video interview is to learn more about you and what you are looking for. This call is also an opportunity for you to learn more about Medbelle and the role so that we can both evaluate if there is a mutual fit. 3. Hiring Manager interview:  If this all goes well, we will be in touch to schedule a  30min video call with the Head of Product and Engineering, who will briefly explain the case study. The call will allow you to show how your experience will help you contribute to the role and department but it’s also a chance for you to ask some additional questions about the role. 4. Case study &amp; presentation: If we both want to continue after that then we will send you a brief case study that is related to your role. We would like for you to work on the case study in your own time and prepare a short presentation on it. We will then have another interview with you, where you present your case and we will do an in-depth interview and some additional casework. This should give both of us an opportunity to judge if we can see each other working together over the long term. 5. Cultural Addition: Your final conversation will be a more personal chat with one of our founders. It will ensure that you will be a great addition to our entire team and will feel at home here. 6. Reference calls: We will ask for the contact details of some of your prior managers or direct colleagues. 7. Offer Ideal start date: as soon as possible</div>

Senior Backend Developer

Berlin

about 2 months ago