Position: Senior Python Tech Lead
Company: IntellectEU
Category: Python
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Overview**

As a Senior Python Tech Lead, you will be joining IntellectEU's growing AI & data team. This team focuses on the development of one main product, VELMA. VELMA’s aim is to quantify knowledge and enable fully explainable recommendations by making use of knowledge graphs. Next to product development, the AI & data team also works on client projects varying from optimizing ETL processes to the implementation of recommendation engines and chatbots. 

As a Tech Lead, you will not only work on VELMA and client projects but also help in defining a strategy about expanding the technical team in a future-proof and scalable way. Be ready to take up multiple roles in a fast-growing, international organization.


**Responsibilities**

- Leading a team of engineers working on our product roadmap. You are expected to contribute to feature development with hands-on development tasks.
- Oversee software architecture, source control workflows, CI/CD processes and perform code reviews to ensure exceptional code quality.
- You will be responsible for improving the development experience and the quality of the codebase.
- You will define and uphold best practices and coding standards for the team.
- Responsible for architecture and design decisions.
- Own stability and performance of the service that you work on.
- Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your area of expertise.
- Inspire other team members to follow good practices and evolve processes.


**Qualifications**

- 2+ years of experience in a technical lead role designing and building complex backend systems.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Excellent knowledge of best-practices and coding patterns.
- You have deep knowledge of Python, Flask, Docker, relational databases and web services
- Tensorflow knowledge is a plus.
- You have experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform or Azure.
- Extensive experience with Linux/UNIX production environments.
- You have a strong sense of quality in terms of both program architecture and code style.
- You love digging into technically complex problems to troubleshoot and figure out a solution.
- You care about continuously improving and shipping the product.
- You are pragmatic about making technical decisions to make sure they align with actual business needs. You understand the trade-offs when building for product value, reliability, or performance.
- You have good communication skills. You can discuss and explain your point of view clearly and effectively.
- Highly proficient in spoken and written English.
- Self-motivated with a strong work ethic and a passion for learning and problem solving.
- Team player.


**Working at IntellectEU**

- Passionate and friendly team in an innovative, casual, positive and open work environment.
- Interesting and challenging projects involving emerging technologies.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Great opportunities for personal and professional development as well as the chance to change the way the business works in the financial world.
- Business travel opportunities.
- International experience in a stable company: the company has offices in Antwerp, Kyiv, New York, Lisbon, Viseu, Dubai, and Sydney and works in the market for over 14 years.