Python Tech Lead - Portugal (Brazil)
Wunderman Thompson Commerce and Technology, Brazil

Python Tech Lead needed to join our growing team on a permanent basis in Portugal.

As the Python Tech Lead you will work closely with the entire technology team to drive innovation and to bring new features and functionality to both internal and external customers whilst supporting their continued growth. You will be a specialist in the creative and technical aspects of website creation and delivery. You will understand business requirements, designs technical solutions, but also plan the support of applications and guide other members of the team.

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensure client systems are built to a high level of quality, usability, and stability
• Ensure the development enhances the processes to manage change, versioning, and deployment
• Ensure functional requirements are correctly translated and interpreted to create robust and clear code
• Ensure traceability of requirements throughout life cycle
• Define and ensure adherence to application engineering guidelines, processes and procedures
• Creating appropriate documentation for requirements, procedures, processes, and revisions
• Providing direction and guidance to team members on technical issues
• Informing and influencing team approach to new standards amp; best practices.
• Supporting the continual development
• Leading the approach, design, development, and architecture for Django implementations
• Making major architectural decisions related to security, reliability, performance, and scalability of the application

What we want from you:

• Experience Leading a cross functional team
• Production experience with Python.
• Knowledge of Django framework.
• Experience with SQL (MySQL to be precise).
• Production experience with AWS services - EC2, RDS.
• Automatization skills - Terraform, Jenkins.
• Linux and apache2 server administration skills.
• Experience with Suit Django
• Experience writing readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code
• Experience writing documentation
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience in Unit testing
• Bachelor's degree in any computer related field or equivalent experience.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver result in a fast-paced environment within tight deadline
• Product development focused

If you know some of this, even better:

• JavaScript, Typescript, Angular 13
• Good verbal and written English
• Proactive attitude
• Good research and development ability
• Experience working in a team environment
• An eye for detail and quality, even within fast paced environments
• A professional development approaches
• Excellent communication skills, at both a technical and non-technical level

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

We offer a great benefits package including hybrid working that works for everyone, social events, training opportunities, medical and dental insurance, life assurance, meal cards and much more.

What we do: At Wunderman Thompson we inspire growth for ambitious brands. Within our commerce and technology division, that means inspiring people across the globe to shop online through seamless digital experiences.

How we do it: Our commerce and technology division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson amp; Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany amp; Co.

We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia.

What makes us different? Part creative agency, part consultancy and part technology company, w

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