Senior Backend / Python Cloud Engineer - Cape Town

About Tangent  

At Tangent we work with large enterprises from IWG plc to SAP & UK Power Networks, to build future-ready digital experiences, products and capabilities.

Tangent approaches AI in a pragmatic way, focusing on delivering tangible benefits to our clients. We harness the latest advancements in Machine Learning (ML) to tackle real-world business challenges.  

As a 100-strong agency, we excel across a wide range of disciplines including strategy, consultancy, design, engineering, and project management. Our global presence spans offices in London, Valencia, Cape Town, Lahore, Poznan, and Cairo. 

What you’ll be doing 

• You’ll be working on a range of projects for our enterprise clients

• Initially, you’ll be designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and efficient server-side logic for AI Chat applications

• Working with relational and/or NoSQL databases to store and retrieve data efficiently

• Integrating third-party APIs to enhance application functionality

• Developing real-time APIs to facilitate communication between front-end and back-end systems

• Optimizing server-side code and deployment options for maximum speed and scalability

• Monitoring and troubleshooting performance issues,

• Implementing security best practices to protect against common web application vulnerabilities

• Collaborating with the team for building comprehensive testing strategy

• Implement server-side testing solution for components, services and integrations

• Use generative AI to support delivery, write technical and user facing documentation

• Establish highly automated infrastructure environments on AWS to support diverse workloads

What we are looking for  

• 3+ years’ experience in Python server-side programming,

• Experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs (e.g. FastAPI or Flask), including authentication, permissions, and serializers,

• Good RDBMS and/or NoSQL knowledge (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB),

• Proven experience in back-end development and building scalable, real-time, high throughput services for mobile applications,

• Experience with one of Azure, GCP or AWS and Kubernetes,

• Experience with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure using server-based and serverless approaches

• Understanding of CI/CD principles and experience in implementing them

• Excellent communication and organisational skills

• Able to plan; spotting technical risks, issues and dependencies and communicating the impact of these to the project team

• Team player in a cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to adapt to changing project requirements and technologies

• Strong technical foundation and technological drive

• Focus on delivering working software

• Fluent in spoken and written English

Bonus points, if you have    

• Interest in building AI based applications

• Knowledge in Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Python Data Science Stack (NumPy, pandas, PyTorch, etc)

• Experience in ML models inference, batch inference, batch querying

• Experience in communicating in a multidisciplinary team and with internal stakeholders

• Insightful opinions about developing scalable backends for mobile

At Tangent our aim is to create a working environment where every single member of the team has the opportunity to be themselves. We are an equal opportunities employer and will welcome and consider all applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex and sexual orientation.