Stink Studios

About you

You’re an expert developer and are completely confident in architecting, building and deploying web sites.

• Expert Python 3 knowledge
• Familiar with Node.js / Serverless
• Ideally familiar with GraphQL
• Solid understanding of the whole web stack, from server OS to client browser
• Experience with AWS and ideally also GAE
• Experience with infrastructure automation (ideally Terraform)

Our projects tend to be heavier on the front-end, so you’ll need to be comfortable being the sole back-end developer on a project, and also able to manage your time across multiple projects.

Experience working on diverse projects (ideally in an agency environment) would be very useful.

What you’ll do

You will work as part of the development team in our London office to build back-end systems powering sites used by millions of people.

• Building elegant, secure and scalable backends using Python
• Producing neat, tested, readable and well documented code
• Using infrastructure automation (mostly Terraform) to create and manage robust systems
• Managing integration and deployments with the front-end development team

Our projects are very diverse and our back-end developers need to be adaptable – one project might require building a complete stack on AWS, another might be a script running on a single computer for a physical installation.

In many cases our sites get a lot of traffic at once. Whether it’s from a Google homepage link, a TV commercial or social media, our sites needs to be able to withstand the load and the scrutiny.

We don’t have a single standard back-end approach because the requirements for projects can be so different – e.g. A project for Google might need to run on the GAE Standard environment, but on another project it might suffice to serve the site from S3/Cloudfront and use Lambda@Edge for dynamic content.

• However these projects do have some common expectations:
• Every part of the system is rigorously tested (w.r.t. functionality, security and performance)
• Scaling is horizontal and automatic
• Continuous Integration (and often CD) using CircleCI