Student.com is the leading global marketplace for student housing

https://www.student.com/

We help students of all nationalities compare rooms near their university in the world's top destinations. We are creating the new international student experience using leading-edge architecture built for global scale. We build products that serve students in over 20 languages, across web, mobile and social. We have a strict focus across all teams on making the lives of students better. We've created a fast-paced yet close-knit culture and we do whatever it takes to move mountains and achieve our mission.

Platform Engineer (Python)

STUDENT.COM Tech is building the new International student experience. We are helping students from over 100 countries through their journey, using leading-edge architecture built for global scale, a dedication to excellence in engineering and a strict focus on making the lives of students better. We build products that serve students in over 20 languages, across web, mobile and social.

As a Platform Engineer, you will work with other engineers to design, develop, test and maintain components of the company ’ s software Platform. Following leading edge micro-services design patterns, you will build services that anticipate and meet business needs. Using the open-sourceNameko project you will build services that are fully and automatically tested and independently and continuously deployed.

Additionally, as a Platform Engineer, you will contribute to the team's development, deployment and support processes. In particular, the Platform Engineer will be responsible for monitoring and maintaining services and resolving production service issues.

Responsibilities

Develop micro-services using the open-source Nameko framework
Work with company leaders to conceptualise, build, test and release services
Translate business requirements into functional solutions using Domain Driven Design principles
Build prototypes and iterate in an agile, test-driven team
Follow TDD and CI
Optimise performance of the Platform through logging, monitoring and testing
Keep up to date on the latest industry trends in micro-services and Python
Explain technologies and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Contribute to open-source