Position: Python Team Lead
Company: Don't Panic Recruiting Agency
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Every day, somewhere in the world, important decisions are made. Whether it is a private equity company deciding to invest millions into a business or a large corporation implementing a new strategic direction, these decisions impact employees, customers, and other stakeholders.

Consulting and private equity firms come to proSapient when they need to gather knowledge, critical to ensuring they make the right decision. It is our mission to provide them with this knowledge efficiently and collaboratively.

Creating knowledge

Our talented client service teams use a combination of their initiative and leading technology to locate industry experts all around the world. These experts will have significant experience in various industries and provide insights to our clients via conference calls and surveys.

Curating knowledge

Our market-leading platform curates insight which helps our clients to make bigger, better decisions with less effort. We believe in the right insights and not the most insights.

Collecting knowledge

Insight can sometimes be found within your own organization, hidden within terabytes of files and folders. Our platform helps to surface these insights when they are needed.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for an exceptional Team Lead to join our rapidly expanding business and run a Python focused engineering team. This team will focus on a number of integral services to our business including transcription, payment as well as a rebuild of our software platform focused on our experts.

**Responsibilities:**

    Lead our newly minted Python Team (1x BE, 1x FE, 1xQA, 1xPO)
    Gain a deep understanding of our team culture and development process
    Build your people into excellent engineers
    Instil the agile approach to development within your team
    Take responsibility for the planning, development and deployments of the products under your purview
    Follow and improve upon our Secure Development Lifecycle
    Build a deep partnership with the team's product owner
    Lead the technical architecture of your product suite with support from the technical director and dev-ops teams
    Ensure high code quality standards and rigorous processes are followed
    Participate in the active coding of your products

**Requirements**

    You must be passionate about our mission, supporting our colleagues and our clients in the discovery of knowledge. You will be spending your time ensuring our mission is a successful one and so a passion for the product and the problem is vital.
    You have at least more than 7 years of experience developing commercial code in Python. Full stack skills are preferred but not required
    Experience with building easy-scale, fault-tolerant SOA applications
    Experience with Redis, ElastiCache, and AWS services (SQS, S3, RDS)
    Good understanding of DevOps (Kubernetes, Docker CI/CD)
    Understanding how to build logging and monitoring systems
    You have past experience managing teams
    You are highly communicative and able to bring the best out of a cross-functional team of engineers
    You enjoy developing the careers of engineers who report to you
    You have a high-quality pedigree with innovative and leading former companies on your CV
    You have created high-performance technical organizations in the past
    You have experience creating a suite of services integrated via API

**Good to know**

    Python 3 annotations
    Experience with NoSQL databases such a MongoDB, ElasticSearch
    Natural language processing skills (NLTK)
    Experience with Dramatiq
    Experience with pythonic linters such a flake8, pylint, bandit

**What we offer:**

    A team of professionals to work and grow with;
    High salary;
    Hipster and comfy office in the city center with all necessary equipment and software;
    Regular salary review;
    Paid sick leave (100%);
    Flexible scheduling at will.