Principal Software Engineer, honu.ai

• You believe in easy-to-maintain code and identify with modern concepts such as clean coding, automated testing and continuous deployment
• Strong systems thinker, able to see the bigger picture at different resolutions simultaneously
• Multi-sector/disciplinary background. Experience in speaking to subject matter experts in diverse fields, understand, and develop models - in a continuous iterative process
• You’re considerate, humble, and a strong believer in teamwork
• You're comfortable taking ownership, accountability and responsibility
• You possess extensive technical proficiency in Python ( 3+ years professionally ) and are comfortable with a range of libraries and, ideally, cloud-based architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure etc. we use Terraform to deploy to GCP)
• Based in the UK or Europe

Desirable

• Have a hugely visible impact, building towards MVP and beyond, as a member of a small, tight-knit team, including working closely with the founder
• Collaborate with the team to define the strategy and vision for how we will build effectively and be successful
• Work closely with other engineers across the company to build delightful features that span various parts of the system
• Develop RESTful APIs using FastAPI and Pydantic
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as ORM tools like SQLAlchemy and SQLModel
• Write clean, maintainable and efficient code
• Ensure code quality through TDD and observability practices
• Containerise applications using Docker
• Participate in Agile XP methodologies like pair programming and code reviews
• Integrate OAuth for security and user authentication
• Work with Python and Poetry for package management
• Utilise GitHub for version control and team collaboration
• Deploy applications to Google Cloud Platform using Terraform
• Occasionally work with React and TypeScript for frontend development
• Monitoring and supporting production, staging, research, and demo environments
• Ensure our platforms are reliable, scalable, secure and extensible
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

• First call with founder ( 30 mins )
• Technical Screening with our CTO (30 min)
• Pair programming Technical Assessment ( 1hr)
• Final chat with team members (1-1.5 hours)