Backend engineer

Job description:

We are looking for a backend engineer for a client in the furniture business.
The clients Data Platform offers streamlined solutions to save time, gain valuable business insights, and manage costs effectively. The Team supports data producers, data consumers and data governance teams making products discoverable with the right design and technology, (this is done with the metadata backbone concept and components for data quality, data pipelines, data sharing etc). The platform is enabled by technical services, software components and frameworks.
By having experience working with APIs, building applications & secure coding practices. You have proven abilities with DevOps practices and its supporting technologies. You have a curious nature and actively acquire new knowledge, skills, champion new methods, and processes to improve performance. Independently drive tasks and improve/find better ways.
By encouraging simplicity, efficiency, ownership, and accountability you easily collaborate with others to achieve our common goals.
To be successful as a backend engineer in the team, you have working experience of building APIs and applications within GCP. Experienced with DevOps practices and supporting technologies, such as CI/CD, Terraform Google Cloud Platform Provider. You enhance system reliability, performance, and operational efficiency using the clients best practices around service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and service level indicators (SLIs). In addition, you have demonstrable experience in working in an Agile and DevOps working set-up. You get energized by keeping high quality, compliant and secure technical solutions promise.
Requirements:
Backend programming using Python building API first applications
Utilize and lead the work with DevOps mindset
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using tools like Terraform, GitHub, or similar technologies.
Working with secure best practices within GCP
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system reliability, performance, and operational efficiency using Ingka best practices around service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and service level indicators (SLIs).
Current technology stack:
CI/CD: Git/Github/Github Actions
Cloud: Google Cloud Platform
Programming backend: Python, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
Programming frontend: JavaScript/Typescript, React
What 3 things from the box above are most important?
Backend programming using Python building API first applications on GCP
Utilize and lead the work with DevOps mindset
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using tools like Terraform, GitHub, or similar technologies.
Duration: 01-Aug-2024 
- 31-Dec-2024
Location: Sweden, Malmö or nearby. Onsite presence required occasionally.
More info tiina.hapuoja@witted.com (EN / FI)

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