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Would you like to join a fun and fast growing FinTech company where you can play an important part in shaping its future? How about an opportunity to design next-generation systems in a highly collaborative work environment, where space for professional development is taken very seriously? Our focus is on high street retail and catering sectors where we are live in over 70 UK Universities, 600 Corporate locations and 800 retailer locations including Caffe Nero and Planet Organic. Our product comprises of iOS and Android apps that talk to a suite of APIs powered by the Yoyo platform. You’ll be working with a backend stack to include, but is not limited to: Python, Django, Event messaging and RESTful APIs, Services Oriented Architecture, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, RabbitMQ, Celery, Puppet, Fabric, Docker, CircleCI / Continuous Deployment via ChatOps, and is hosted on AWS.

This career opportunity promises to be varied and paced from the get go. Writing Python code which is reusable, testable... and efficient
• Collaborating with a cross-functional team of other engineers and product managers to plan and estimate the team’s work in a Sprint-Kanban hybrid workflow
• Working in a fast-moving but stable environment in a continuous deployment workflow – testing and QA is very much a part of your role
• Contributing in planning sessions and retrospectives, including your own 20% personal development time
• Computer Science degree or similar desired

Experience working in startup or other entrepreneurial organisation in a role such as Backend Platform Engineer, Platform Engineer, Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Full Stack Engineer, Software Development Engineer or similar
• Experience working with Python in an academic or professional setting
• Django, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, RabbitMQ, Nginx, Celery, Puppet, Fabric, Docker, AWS, TDD, GoCD, etc.
• Experience building and maintaining real-world products using continuous integration/deployment to enable engineers to deploy code and configuration from local environments through to production
• Experience building and maintaining APIs via RESTful web services
• A track-record of creating and maintaining automated tests to build high-quality software (unit, acceptance and UI tests)
• Previous exposure of mobile payment or mobile apps is an asset
• Coaching and mentoring experience is desired but not essential.

A positive entrepreneurial outlook with the ability to be flexible in our changing environment
• A passion for programming and software engineering by either blogging or attending coding conferences or meet-ups; a big plus if you’ve contributed to open-source software.
• It’s not all ping pong tables and free beer…..well sometimes it is! Competitive Salary with health insurance and pension scheme
• Monthly credit to your Yoyo Wallet account
• Work in a collaborative, flexible, open-minded and flat organisation

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