AI Summary
YouGov is seeking a Mid-Senior Software Engineer to join their global team. The role involves building high-value features, evolving system architecture, and ensuring service availability and scalability. This is a full-time, 100% remote position based in Poland or other European countries where YouGov has an entity. Key responsibilities include writing maintainable code, defining testing strategies, and owning code delivery through CI/CD pipelines.
Key Highlights
Collaborate with product and design teams to build high-value features.
Drive the evolution of architecture and system, ensuring availability, scalability, and efficiency.
Work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic.
Produce simple, maintainable code and define testing strategies with automated tests.
Own code delivery through a self-service continuous delivery pipeline and production infrastructure.
Run built services using containers orchestration and monitoring technologies.
Perform prompt, regular, and constructive code reviews.
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Full-time, 100% remote role
Flexible working hours
Good work-life balance
Mental health programs (Headspace app subscription, mental health sessions)
LinkedIn Learning courses
1 additional day off for Birthday
Growth and learning opportunities
Job Description
YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks.
We speak daily to our panel of over 24 million registered members to understand opinion and behaviors
around the world. We have a strong reputation as a source of accurate data and we’re trusted by the
world’s biggest brands to get it right, making us the most quoted market research source in the world.
Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard
for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of
millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to
be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all backgrounds to bring a fresh
perspective of the work we deliver.
About The Role
You will collaborate with product and design teams to build high-value features, drive the evolution of
our architecture and system, and ensure the availability, scalability, and efficiency of our services.
Responsibilities
Work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic.
Produce simple, maintainable code while always looking to improve it.
Define testing strategies and write automated tests.
Own your code all the way to production with a self-service continuous delivery pipeline and
production infrastructure.
Run what you build using containers orchestration and monitoring technologies.
Perform code-reviews promptly, regularly and constructively.
Key Skills & Experience
Understanding of modern testing principles.
You have 2-3 years of commercial experience working with the majority of our tech-stack.
Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with a highly distributed microservices architecture.
Good knowledge of Python and some of the main web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Django,
CherryPy).
Experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL.
Good knowledge of Docker.
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to end user.
Experience participating in mitigating technical debt.
Experience with Kubernetes and AWS technologies.
Ability to think abstractly and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems.
1+ years working remotely in a global environment.
Tools & Technology
Collaboration & documentation: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Miro
Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Vault, AWS, Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic, GitLab.
Python (FastAPI, CherryPy, Flask), Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Here’s what we have to offer!
A full-time, 100% remote role based in Poland, Warsaw or any other city in European countries we have an entity in
Flexible working hours
A good work-life balance. Because we all work better when we are rested
Mental health programs (Headspace app subscription, mental health sessions with invited coaches)
LinkedIn Learning courses
1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday
Growth and learning opportunities
Get to know us better...
YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks.
Life at YouGov
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