Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Start date: asap 
Latest Start date: by arrangement
End date: 12-months contract (with the chance for extension)
Workload: 80-100%
Contract Type: Contracting
Location: Kaiseraugst

Your tasks:

• Coding! including contributions to open source software that we use or maintain

• Writing and implementing design documents (RFCs)

• Documenting your creations, as well as ensuring great automated test coverage

• Serving as a role model - and helping the team to follow software engineering best-practices

Your Profile:

• Highly motivated Software Engineer with ownership mindset

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally in large-scale or high-growth environments 

• Strong background in scalable systems and modern engineering practices 

• Recent hands-on experience with Python

• Business domain: compute infrastructure & platforms

• Experience with Kubernetes (usage, concepts, and operations) 

• Familiarity with public cloud environments such as AWS

• Experience in test automation, ideally with pytest

• Proactive, solution-oriented, and eager to take responsibility

• English fluent is a MUST

Nice to haves:

• Interest in or experience with tools such as HashiCorp Vault, FluxCD, Kustomize, Terraform, Grafana, GitLab, Slack, and Linear