AWS/Python Software Engineer E.ON Next

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Company description:E.ON is a privately-owned international energy company. Our 40,000 colleagues in 13 countries work daily towards the improvement of technical innovations and user-friendly customer solutions for the new energy world. We are the first large energy company to focus more heavily upon the energy of the future through our three business areas of energy networks, renewable energies and customer solutions.Job description:We are looking for the most ambitious, talented and creative people out there to join our brand new, fresh, start-up business. This isn’t energy as you know it. This is new, exciting and waiting for stars like you to shape it. Do you love delivering for customers Are you full of energy, ideas and passion Are you an enthusiastic and resourceful backend software engineers who is passionate about building great products. If you are creative and inspired to invent new ways to help build amazing products that customers love, please join us! We would really love to work with you!Were using Gatsby and React with TypeScript on the frontend, along with GraphQL to get data from our APIs. Were using GraphQL Modules and AWS lambda functions to keep things organised in our "Backend for Frontend" and were styling everything with PostCSS.Everything is hosted in AWS and we’re lucky enough to have CI/CD fully enabled alongside GitLab as our complete DevOps platform. Terraform also means we deploy infrastructure as code.Were very proud of our current tech stack. We are at the leading edge of technology and with the help and guidance of all our software engineers, we want to keep it that way.If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you!A taste of what you’ll be doing.•Create applications using Python to automate backend processes•Use a Serverless first approach to application design•Work in an agile team with other backend engineers and product designers.•Plan, build, test, and release new features and experiments.•Mentor other team members through pair programming and code reviews.•Help solve the challenges that come with large-scale systems and lots of data.Profile description:Are you the person for the jobWe know what’s important to us at E.ON Next, we’re looking for the brightest and best to join our awesome Digital team and create the right culture to be the best.We understand that these lists can sometimes be a bit intimidating and we dont mean it to be like that. If you get what were on about here, send us your CV. We would rather chat through your experience than put you off because you dont tick every one of these boxes.•Experience with a scripting language, preferably Python•Experience with developing applications hosted in AWS•Experience with Serverless Computing such as Lambda and API Gateway•Experience developing Apollo GraphQLPlus, experience in the following would be a bonus:•AWS Engineering in general, managing resources etc.•Terraform, Packer, Consul•Django (or equiv. web framework)•Domain modelling•HTTP and REST APIs•Writing robust and fault-tolerant software•Celery and async processing•Postgres•Plus experience in the following would be a bonus:•React and Redux•Experience using Gatsby•Experience with unit testing, preferably Jest and Cypress•Excellent software design, problem-solving and debugging skills•Strong communication and interpersonal skills•Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines