Back End Developer

Senior Backend Developer Engineer

Location: Remote - Portugal

About Ovyo:

Ovyo is an professional services company specializing in the satellite, telecommunications, media, and broadcasting, transportation and many more sectors. Our management team is located in the UK and Portugal and we have technical teams based across Europe and India.

Responsibilities:

• Work in collaboration with the Lead Engineer, your peers on the development team, and internal stakeholders such as product managers, designers, and QAs, to ensure project requirements are translated and coded into technical solutions on the assigned project successfully
• Develop, test, and maintain high-quality code that is clean, efficient, and follows best practices
• Write unit tests, integration tests, and participate in test-driven development to ensure the stability and reliability of your code
• Ensure that code is well-documented, making it easier for other developers to understand and maintain moving forward
• Take ownership of key deliverables, ensuring that they are completed on time, within scope, and meet quality standards
• Ensure long term software quality, scalability, and maintainability
• Assist with technical resolution of issues on production and development systems
• Understanding of the full stack of the application (HTML/CSS/JS, REST, Relational Databases such as PostgreSQL)
• Participate in design and development of project-based backend development efforts.

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of experience with Python and Django experience in a professional setting
• Extensive understanding of web application best practices and Git development flow
• Knowledge of relational databases such as Postgres
• Experience in building and supporting RESTful APIs using Django and Django REST Framework
• Experience with Node
• Understanding of the full stack of the application and experience with HTML/CSS/JS
• Understanding of cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Excellent communicator who is passionate about quality, supportability, extensibility, and scalable application design