Position: Python (Django) back-end engineer for a high-load IoT product
Company: Panenco
Experience required: 2y
Category: Python
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

**About Panenco
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We build and manage a product portfolio that spans multiple industries.
Our mission as a company is to raise the bar for digital product development.
This mission is underpinned by a refined operating model that facilitates quality over quantity and is oriented towards sustainable growth.

**About our software engineering position
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In summary, you'll become an integral part of:
- A varied portfolio of rapidly growing web and data products
- A healthy mix of green field initiatives and established (yet recent) codebases
- A refined operating model that prioritises technical excellence
- Company-wide initiatives to continuously optimise our technical setup

**Recognise yourself?
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You’re a well-rounded software engineer that likes to be part of the product definition and development process. You have a broad understanding of the possibilities and limitations of web technologies. You're at your best within a strong team that works together towards common product objectives. You find the optimal balance between the speed and frequency of delivery versus reliability. You want to push a product forward and make a difference for end-users.

**Responsibilities**

- Based on the product objectives you can draw up a future-proof data model and interpret an application architecture
- Build APIs based on modern programming languages/frameworks
- Write automated unit and integration tests
- Participate in code reviews
- Turn user stories into functioning software in close cooperation with our frontend engineers.

**Technologies and required skills:
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- A higher education degree in Computer Science or Applied Informatics (or closely related field) is a must.
- Hands on experience with and in-depth conceptual understanding of AWS
- Software development experience using REST APIs
- A solid understanding of database technologies, both relational and non-relational (mySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc)
- Python (Django) or Node.js development knowledge with an understanding of microservice principles
- As a plus: overall professional curiosity in the world of data (engineering). You naturally identify use cases where we can leverage modern data science techniques to create additional product value

**We offer
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We offer a friendly, stable, and inspiring working and learning environment with a strong team ready to help out where needed. During our weekly Panenco Labs sessions, we share experiences from the various products that we're building across different specialty domains.

A fair compensation, office snacks, and after-work entertainment are included of course!

**Location**

Leuven, Belgium
Address: Hyphen One - Kolonel Begaultlaan 1A/51, 3012 Leuven
Kyiv, Ukraine
Address: 123 Peremohy avenue, office number 520