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Overview

The Senior Backend Engineer is responsible for the technical delivery of their scrum team. This includes ensuring a high standard of work, in line with our scalability and performance goals.

Responsibilities

• Design features by working closely with Product and customers to translate real-world problems into product and technical specifications, ensuring that no development work is started until this is done to a high level of quality.
• Mentor the team to ensure that everyone knows what they are doing, providing technical expertise as-and-when needed.
• Lead technology improvements by using data to identify areas of the product which are under-performing, designing the solutions, advocating for the changes, and overseeing their implementation.
• Contribute to process improvements by finding bottlenecks or pain-points in the team, and proposing solutions.
• Work closely with the analytics and blockchain teams to ensure that changes made to the backend services will not break integrations with their services; DevOps to deploy new services into different environments; and QA to maintain a high level of software quality.
• Write software, fix bugs, perform code reviews, and generally keep doing development work. It is vital that the team lead is close to the coal-face.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer, at least 3 years experience as a senior.
• Extensive Python experience, working with Cloud-based technologies
• Demonstrable experience designing and building APIs.
• Experience with Python web frameworks.
• Proven ability in leadership skills.
• Rust is a lovely-to-have.

Preferred skills and knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of Python.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong understanding of types and type systems, and skills in mypy, Rust, or other typed languages.
• Strong understanding of Linux and Docker.
• Well-versed in best-practice engineering - version control systems, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL, or other relational databases.
• Good understanding of monitoring and logging tools.
• Awareness of Kubernetes.

Additional Information

• A great working environment
• Fantastic pension scheme
• 27 days of holiday + bank holidays with the opportunity to buy or sell 5 more days
• Private Healthcare
• Mental health is a top priority for De Beers Group - we offer free subscription to Headspace and have mental health first aider
• Competitive salary
• Your Choice membership discounts
• Employee share schemes
• Staff discount
• Flexible benefits package

Who we are

De Beers Group is a company with a rich history and a sparkling future. Since 1888 our experts have searched the world for nature's most precious gem. Our diamonds bring beauty to the world. But we think they can do so much more. We want our diamonds, and our business, to make life brilliant - for our people, our customers and the world around us. Venetia Mine is part of De Beers Group Managed Operations Business which integrates mines, operations and support functions in the De Beers Group producer countries of Canada and South Africa to shape a safe, sustainable future for De Beers Group's people, shareholders, communities and partners.

Safety

Safety first is a way of life for us. We are unconditional about the safety, health and well-being of our colleagues, at work and at home, and about that of the communities where we work. We aim to lead the industry by investing in innovation to protect people, who are at the heart of our business. Our high performing teams take accountability for their own and others' actions, work collaboratively, and always show care and respect.

Inclusion & Diversity

We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are. We provide equality of opportunity to enable everyone to fulfil their potential. Referrals incentive applicable: This opportunity is open to a paid referral incentive according to the Referral Policy. Referral incentives are applicable to De Beers Group internal employees only.

Building Forever

Sustainability is at the heart of our decision-making - it is how we do business. Building Forever is key to our purpose as it represents our ambitious and holistic sustainability framework and is central to our ability to deliver long-term value to our communities and partners. This shapes how we protect our social and environmental license to operate, build a long-term legacy in our host communities and earn consumers' trust in our diamonds that they can wear with pride.

Background Checks

Successful candidates will be required to complete background screening which may include a criminal check and validation of qualifications.