Python Backend Engineer at Regulatory Genome Development

Job Description:

What we are looking for:

To support our ambitious growth plans, we're looking for a Python Backend Engineer to join our remote-first cross-functional tech team of engineers, and data scientists & ML specialists.

We have developed a core document-processing capability for a rapidly expanding corpus of published regulations and supported regulatory themes. Your role will be to work closely with tech leadership to roll out the crucial organisational tooling which facilitates it — for internal stakeholders such as crawler engineers, annotators, regulatory analysts, and data scientists — and the customer-facing APIs which realise its value to paying customers & end-users.

About you:

• You're experienced in owning solutions to complex problems and relish the opportunity to learn new skills on the job
• You enjoy working with tech leaders to turn high-level plans into more detailed technical components and be comfortable working in an agile way to deliver working software
• You’re outcome orientated. You’ll take satisfaction from seeing the results of your work in the hands of internal stakeholders and external users
• You’re purpose driven. You want to help us make the world of regulation work better

You'll have:

• 3 years of experience writing code professionally
• Knowledge of Python 3 and significant back-end libraries
• Several years of experience developing in cloud environments, especially AWS
• A good understanding of data engineering principles, schema & API design
• Enthusiasm for developing your skills and experience in the context of a growing start-up
• A talent for solving problems iteratively, often with a high level of uncertainty

Nice to have:

• An interest in the real-world application of information extraction and retrieval, - and Natural Language Processing
• Experience with CI pipelines and DevOps methods
• Experience working with Kubernetes & Helm charts
• Knowledge of MLOps practices, particularly on AWS with SageMakerStudio

Company Benefits

• A flexible remote-working environment
• Ample opportunity to grow with the company as we scale
• 25 days' holiday in addition to UK Bank Holidays
• Share options
• Laptop
• £500 annual learning and development budget to use on subscription services or
• conference attendance
• 5 days a year of personal development time

Interview Process

• 1st interview
• Final interview with code pairing exerciseLondon