Senior Python Engineer, Petlab
Food and supplements for pets
Open for applications
Food and supplements for pets
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To maximise the health and well-being of every pet.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience working as an engineer on Python and related backend technology
- A deep understanding of Python and its ecosystem, as well as a track record of successfully completing complex projects and making technical decisions
- Excel at problem-solving with the ability to tackle complex and challenging problems independently
- Experience building quality, and highly scalable backend systems
- Excellent understanding and experience of programming languages and paradigms
- Enthusiastic self-starter that will be able to work in a fast paced environment
- Proven ability to quickly build and maintain authentic relationships and trust with individuals with excellent communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, including non-technical members of the organization
- Any additional experience with the following tech would be advantageous: Fast API, REST Apis, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Microseverices, API Gateway, Lambda, ECR, Terraform and AWS Cloud
What the job involves
- Reporting to our Lead Software Engineer, you will join a small but highly productive team of talented engineers working on our newly developed Python platform
- You will have the opportunity to work on internal tooling, implement new features proposed by our growth team, and expand our use of industry standards and design patterns
- Additionally, you will ensure that the team adopts best practices
- The role offers a great opportunity to learn with a structured career path and plenty of flexibility through remote working
- This role will focus on web application development for an ecommerce system, undertaking the business logic and backend apis for the customer facing website, internal tools and recurring billing system
- We move and think fast so it’s important that you are able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and are happy to roll up your sleeves to do whatever it takes to support the team in every way possible
- There’s an opportunity to have an impact with lots of autonomy in a great team
- If that sounds exciting - we would love you to join our pack!
- Take on more of a leading role within the team, mentoring any junior developers, enforcing best practices, emphasise code quality etc
- Morning stand-up and peer reviews
- Developing high quality, tested and scalable Python micro services for AWS
- Collaborating with the tech lead to recommend solutions that satisfy functional and non-functional needs
- Championing and sharing best practices to improve team and code over time
- Informing others of blockers and communicate technical limitations or implementation misuse
Our take
Petlab Co is a direct-to-consumer pet supplement company. Founded by serial entrepreneur brothers, Christopher and Andrew Masanto, it has become one of the fastest-growing pet company in the USA.
Petlab Co’s focus on environmentally friendly pet food and probiotic supplements had a built-in market already, and that community has grown exponentially through digital marketing prowess.
The company has expanded its global presence by launching in Canada & Europe, with support from HSBC UK. Petlab Co is now focused on growing its team and targeting new audiences. Its products continue to win international pet food awards like the dog dental care product of the year at the Pet Innovation Awards 2024.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Home Office Stipend
- Pet Friendly Office
- Collaborative Working Space
- Flexible working hours
- Company Equipment - You choose between a mac or a PC!
- Audible subscriptions - We love to promote and encourage personal & professional development so we couldn't be happier to pay for audio-books subscriptions of your choice on Amazon
- Employee Assistance Programme - We make sure our team is covered for a range of different circumstances personally and professionally, and have an employee assistance program that provides a complete support network of expert advice for the ultimate work/home life balance
- Pension Scheme - contributions towards your pension scheme!
- Cycle to work Scheme - Who doesn't love a brisk cycle into work! We have secure bike storage with a service lift and entrance dedicated to our wonderful cyclists
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Christopher Masanto
(CEO & Co-Founder)Currently Investor at Oura, Spiritual Gangster and Seed Health.
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