About the role
You will collaborate with product and design teams to build high-value features, drive the evolution of our architecture and system, and ensure the availability, scalability, and efficiency of our services.
What you will do:
- Work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic.
- Produce simple, maintainable code while always looking to improve it.
- Define testing strategies and write automated tests.
- Own your code all the way to production with a self-service continuous delivery pipeline and production infrastructure.
- Run what you build using containers orchestration and monitoring technologies.
- Perform code-reviews promptly, regularly and constructively.
What you will bring
- Understanding of modern testing principles.
- Proven commercial experience working with the majority of our tech-stack.
- Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Good English verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with a highly distributed microservices architecture.
- Good knowledge of Python and some of the main web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Django, CherryPy).
- Experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL.
- Good knowledge of Docker.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to end user.
- Experience participating in mitigating technical debt.
- Experience with Kubernetes and AWS technologies.
- Ability to think in an abstract manner and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems.
- Experience working remotely in a global environment.
Tools & Technology
- Collaboration & documentation: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Miro
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Vault, AWS, Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic, GitLab.
- Python (FastAPI, CherryPy, Flask), Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Here’s what we have to offer!
- A full-time, 100% remote role based in any country in which we have a legal entity
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Flexible working hours (we are a global team of remote first developers operating in European, Indian and US/Canada time zones)
- A good work-life balance. Because we all work better when we are rested
- Top-notch equipment to work with. You just have to bring your talent!
- Well being programs (Headspace app subscription, mental health sessions with invited coaches)
- Growth and learning opportunities
If you think you would be a good fit and even if you do not have 100% of the skills mentioned above, we would still love to hear from you!
If you are curious about YouGov's technology stack, please visit: https://stackshare.io/yougov-plc/platforms
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Company Description and Culture
YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks.
We speak daily to our panel of over 27 million registered members to understand opinion and behaviors around the world. We have a strong reputation as a source of accurate data and we’re trusted by the world’s biggest brands to get it right, making us the most quoted market research source in the world.
Why join YouGov?
Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.
Life at YouGov
We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.
We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.
Equal Opportunity Employer
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.
Data Privacy
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