Python Backend Engineer (Data Platform team)

First of all, we are the product development team!

Lyte helps make a magical experience for fans to get fair prices, fraud prevention, guaranteed entry & flexible ticketing options and for rights-holders get control of secondary ticketing revenue, data ownership, postponement solutions & the ability to always be on sale. We are looking for a well-rounded Senior Backend (Python) Software Engineer to Data Platform Team at Lyte.

With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we’re able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Europe. If this sparks your interest, apply today and chat with our friendly Recruitment team further.

As part of the Data Team, you will be responsible for working on development efforts ranging across a number of problem spaces. The team is working on developing Data Platform as well as data tools and data pipelines. We collect data from different sources and transform this data in a way suitable for our stakeholders. You will have a direct impact on the customer experience through the design and implementation of key Lyte growth initiatives.

To do this, you'll collaborate with other developers to write the best code for the project and deliver amazing results that our users love. Together with the team, your expertise and skills will have a direct hand in creating experiences that will make fans want to use Lyte as part of their regular life habits.

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• Proficiency in Python programming
• Proven experience in developing and maintaining distributed systems at scale
• Ability to deep-dive and diagnose system bottlenecks via monitoring and metrics
• Ability to lead technical initiatives with self-direction
• Experience crafting and implementing well-tested, highly scalable, and performant micro-services and/or other distributed systems
• Experience in web-scraping techniques.
• Proficiency in relational databases and handling data at scale
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space, and time
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GAE, Azure)
• Demonstrated excellence at solving problems iteratively and delivering software that can be responsive to customer feedback
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

It's great, but not required if you have:

• Experience with optimizing both new and legacy systems for performance at scale
• Experience creating and implementing effective monitoring, tracing, and system performance tooling
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Experience with RESTful

For our employees we compensate:

• Medical services
• Tickets to live events (concerts, festivals, theatre performances)
• Education (IT and language courses)
• Sports
  

Also we offer

• Flexible working hours and vacation policy
• A mature team of people who realize that work life balance requires rigor, discipline, and internal organization.
• Creative and product driven environment. If you have an interesting engineering idea, we are open to discussing it and potentially acting on it
• Some projects are really ambitious, and you will have an opportunity to improve your skills without being constrained by legacy code
• 6 sick days per year
• Bonus program for significant events in employees' life