Contract Senior Software Engineer JSPythonGenAI
Contract Senior Software Engineer JSPythonGenAI
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Job Description
Location: Remote (EU)
Department: Engineering
Hours: Contract (GMT timezone)
Employment: Contract B2B
About YLD:
Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract inspire develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London Lisbon and Porto.
Tasks
About the role:
As a Senior Software Engineer youll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious passionate driven and enthusiastic. Youll be proficient at problemsolving and crafting scalable resilient and faulttolerant architectures. Youll be an effective communicator and a team player. Furthermore you and your team will move in a fastpaced engineering environment achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.
About You:
A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highlyskilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others.
Youll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects both in terms of the product and the methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a testfirst mindset (actually writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review.
You have a real passion for problemsolving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.
If you are a proactive adaptable and enthusiastic engineer with a passion for leveraging multiple technologies to build exceptional backend solutions we encourage you to apply. Join our team and contribute to the development of innovative products that make a difference in the industry.
Requirements
Your daytoday responsibilities will look like this:
- Crafting excellent products! As a Senior Backend Engineer you will work on developing new features and optimising existing systems to drive our clients products forward in the best way.
- Working on AWS services to build and maintain a scalable cloud infrastructure
- Implementing CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
- Working closely with your team regularly collaborating and on engineering initiatives to continually push yourselves to be better
- Driving good practices within your team making an impact on the whole department;
- Participating in regular show and tells promoting your work to both your department and the wider company
Youll have the following skills and experience:
- Proven strong experience as a Python Backend Engineer;
- Proficiency in JavaScript backend development particularly with Node.js including experience with serverless architectures such as AWS Lambda;
- Experience in other backend programming languages such as Go or Node (nice to have);
- Experience with frontend technologies including React JavaScript HTML and CSS;
- Strong experience with GenAi and LLMs: evals guardrailing RAG caching embeddings search chaining agents etc.;
- Experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines along with CI/CD tools and best practices e.g Terraform CloudFormation and/or CDK;
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure Google Cloud) containerisation; technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) and orchestration platforms (e.g. AWS ECS);
- Familiarity with multiple protocols (e.g. HTTP GraphQL and gRPC);
- Experience in databases (relational schemaless and vector);
- Substantial testing experience from code quality through to security customer journeys and accessibility;
- Building highperformance and scalable applications;
- Familiarity with performance monitoring tools;
- You can keep a cool head when debugging production issues.
Youll be:
- Selfmotivated proactive and constantly looking for ways to improve and develop yourself
- An excellent communicator both in writing and verbally. Youll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in businessfriendly language
- Detail oriented
- Problemsolving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs
- Used to working in a teamoriented collaborative environment
- Analytical and problemsolvingoriented
- A genuine believer in diversity and fairness
Benefits
The chance to work with a forwardthinking ethical and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fastmoving business
Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:
- 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
- Technical Interview with our Senior Engineers (1h30)
- Final call with the projects Client Partner (30 mins)
We live and breathe our values and know you will too:
- Growing every day
- Including everyone
- Relationships built on honesty and ethics
- Inspiring solutions
- Winning together
Were an equalopportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We dont discriminate based on race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation pregnancy or maternity age marital status or disability status. Likewise we also offer a remotefirst working environment meaning that flexible working and worklife balance come as standard for all employees.
Employment Type
Full Time
