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Python Platform Engineer, Picnic Technologies

Picnic Technologies Remote
Remote Work Available

Job Description

Amsterdam, Netherlands

In a nutshell

As one of our platform developers, you grab ownership of projects, collaborate, and grow the efficiency of your fellow developers using our Python stack. Here you will focus mostly on shared Python libraries and developer tooling for all of Picnic. From designing, developing, and testing new user-facing features in libraries and tooling, to improving the scalability and security of our platform, you have the perfect opportunity to make an impact and gain satisfaction from not only improving one tech team, but all of Picnic at once!

We don’t hide what we do. Instead, we open-source with the community that helped us grow (here’s proof!). Still curious? Check out how we use Python at Picnic!

Tricks of the trade

  • Drive: Design, develop, and test software for our platform. We are one Developer Platform, so some of your colleagues will also know about Java, Typescript, Spinnaker, maven, npx, poetry, etc.
  • Engineer: Create high-quality code that is scalable, reliable, reusable, and extensible.
  • Mentorship: Help our developers with any engineering/tooling questions or challenges they may face.
  • Improvement: Develop new features to improve the efficiency, scalability, and security of our tech teams.
  • Ownership: Take ownership of projects and manage their entire life cycles.
  • Our Tech: Python 3.10/3.11/3.12, many Python libraries across various domains, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, TeamCity, Spinnaker. Can you help us choose between uv and Poetry? Shall we drop our linters for ruff?
  • You have a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent (or relevant experience).
  • You have outstanding Python skills (with at least 6 years of Python-focused professional experience).
  • You have moved from product development to platform engineering, or you’re just really passionate about that type of work!
  • You have a good understanding of relational databases and SQL and you know when to use NoSQL solutions like MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and RabbitMQ.
  • You have familiarity with leading changes to tackle microservice architecture challenges (high availability, distributed tracing, observability, etc.).
  • You know your way around software versioning (git), test suites, technical documentation, and continuous integration and deployment.
  • You have experience with Docker and you don't mind collecting bonus points with your cloud and Kubernetes skills.