Senior Back End Engineer

About EDITED

EDITED is the world’s leading AI-driven retail intelligence platform. We empower the world’s most successful brands and retailers with real-time decision making power. 

By connecting internal business and external market data, EDITED infuses intelligence into every retail decision.

We help retailers increase margins, generate more sales, and drive better business outcomes through AI-powered market and enterprise intelligence that fuels automation. 

The Role

As a Senior Back End Engineer, you will play a crucial role in our technical ecosystem, providing expertise and technical direction to deliver high-impact projects. Working closely with a talented team of engineers, product managers, data scientists, and solution architects, you'll tackle complex challenges in data and infrastructure, contributing to the success of major initiatives to help us deliver quality as a business.

We’re looking for someone with strong technical skills who can take ownership and accountability for significant projects. Your day might range from designing and building APIs to optimising database queries, to researching new platforms for user authentication. You’ll act as a problem solver and work directly with the Director of Engineering to come up with solutions. This role is ideal for someone who is excited by complex, challenging technical problems and the chance to work with highly experienced and talented engineers to help them grow and develop in the next step of their careers.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance on back-end development projects and take ownership of key deliverables.

• Demonstrate a proactive approach to problem-solving and encourage a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering team.

• Collaborate on tasks effectively, leveraging the strengths of team members and fostering a collaborative working environment.

• Act as a mentor, providing guidance and support to junior engineers, fostering their growth and development within the organisation.

Requirements

It’s important for us to look for candidates that strive for excellence with a positive attitude, a strong sense of ownership and work ethic, and a passion to consistently develop and improve their knowledge and skillset. If you’re excited about this role and the opportunity to work at EDITED, we encourage you to apply even if you only match some, rather than all, of the requirements.

Essential:

• 5+ years of experience in back-end engineering roles

• Proficiency in Python and fluent in some *nix flavour.

• Strong understanding of data management, APIs, and infrastructure, with the ability to architect scalable solutions.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to adapt and learn new technologies quickly, with a passion for crafting readable, well-tested code.

Desirable:

• An active interest in DevOps and Machine Learning.

• Experience with frameworks like Django, Flask or FastAPI, Elasticsearch or similar NoSQL technologies, and relational databases. 

• A good understanding of security. 

Perks & Benefits

• You can utilise our flexible working policy to ensure you can work around your schedule - this means starting & finishing when it suits you best!

• At EDITED we are set up to work remotely and utilise a hybrid approach with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week in the office

• Enhanced parental leave policy

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays (and an extra day for every year at EDITED)

Find out more about working at EDITED here: https://edited.com/careers/

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.