Analyst / Developer

Since our

Django

and

Python

development and consultancy services are highly required, we’re now looking for an additional

Software Analyst / Developer

to join us. You will be part of a 10-person multidisciplinary and cohesive team operating on multiple projects, and you will bring them your quality culture, your experience in Python development and architectures, and your attitude to detect and integrate innovation in our technological solutions. You will be involved in some of the team challenges that will put your skills at test.

One such challenge involves extending and improving a

grants and scholarships management platform

for university students, a long term project with the public administration. You will be on the front line, together with our developers and our functional analyst, to maintain and improve the platform we took over one year ago, including adding new features or regulatory updates, with a

strong focus on refactoring, architecture evolution, performance assessment

and improvement, within a complex environment. Another challenge is extending and improving a

web platform for teachers and students . This is another long-term project for one of the largest school publishers in Italy. As part of the design and product teams, you'll collaborate both with your teammates at Nephila and the client's digital and editorial staff. As a go-between for the developers and the users, you will focus on

analysing, proposing, reviewing and testing solutions for databases and APIs

to provide data to frontend developers and other services, working in an ecosystem of services managed by different vendors and providers. This is an opportunity to develop innovative solutions and features that will make a real difference in the education sector. There are some other things you will do: work with PM, PO, teammates and partners to assess

the scope of a project , specify the users' needs to the developers, and establish solutions and software architectures; review and fine tune the software

requirements and specifications , contribute to the definition of the product, its stack, features, user facing behaviour; develop

prototypes

or proof of concepts, built to show and test the crucial aspects of solutions and software architectures; review and monitor the

code quality , identifying safety, performance, and compliance issues, proactively working to address them; support teammates implementing solutions, refactoring and improving existing code keeping it on track with framework and techniques evolutions; help keep

internal documentation

updated to help us become a better, more effective organisation; guide and mentor

fellow Python developers, both members of the internal Nephila team, as well as clients; contribute to

technological choices , and to the design or the improvements, of the system architecture of the projects you will work on; invest time and effort to

stay current

with technological and methodological innovations, and you will collaborate with our CTO in defining and planning the team training and knowledge improvements.

Our culture and inspirations We are

opensource

oriented,

human-centered

and with an

agile mindset . We are proud Django and Python

contributors , and we actively support

diversity

and inclusion in our communities. Even better, we are always eager to welcome teammates who are also

community people , conference attendees and speakers. We are proudly oriented to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce, and we celebrate our differences because we believe they will led us to be more innovative and to make even better products. Our working environment We are a small, nimble and

remote first

company based in Firenze, Italy. We are

life-long learners , and each of us cares to grow and support each other as much as they care to grow the whole organization. We are

problem solvers . We support long-lasting and evolutionary solutions for

digital ecosystems

through digital innovation. We think, create, and help integrating technological solutions and

digital processes

in our clients’ organisations.

Our technological stack As a company with a strong technological mindset, we like to keep our daily tools at hand, and keep on-premise services for whatever we can handle ourselves. We strongly believe that untested code is a broken code, and we try to automate whatever we can. Our

CI/CD infrastructure

is there to catch errors and help us deploy our code quickly and effectively. Our focus is on developing web applications with

Python , and our stack is based on

Django ,

Django REST Framework ,

django CMS

and async frameworks like

FastAPI . We mostly use

PostgreSQL , but we happen to interact with

Oracle

or

MariaDB

too. Outside the relational world, we work with different systems like

ElasticSearch ,

Redis ,

MongoDB , and any other service that might be needed to fulfill the client requirements. When it comes to the infrastructure, we have a broad range of deployment scenarios, from plain server to managed

Kubernetes

clusters.

One more thing Even it may seem like we’re looking for a specific candidate, the role ends up tailored to the person who applies and joins. And, several research works show that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the requirements. You can check our main criteria below and, regardless of how well you feel to fit our description, we encourage you to apply if you're interested. We'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience

About you You love building complex products with

Python , things fast matched with robustness, and you are always mindful to avoid technical debt and waste. You enjoy analysing innovative trends and getting deeper with the implementation details. You value collaboration as much as coding, and you welcome feedbacks as an opportunity to sharpen your skills. You have at least 5 years of experience

working in web development ; You have experience working with

3rd party APIs

and libraries; You have a good grasp of

Python

and experience with working with

Django

or

FastAPI ; While not a specialist, you have a good grasp of the

infrastructure/operations

side of developing web applications, and can assist operations specialists in designing/maintaining the infrastructure; You have a good knowledge of

Docker

and you have familiarity with deploying it in the

cloud ; You have experience designing

software architectures

and

modelling data ; You have demonstrable knowledge of

design patterns

and best practices in software development; You have knowledge of

continuous integration

methodologies and automated deployment; You have experience in an

agile

development methodology such as Scrum; You are able to

manage, plan and take responsibility

for a range of tasks involving interaction with other developers, business analysts or users; You are able to

communicate

effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels in both verbal and written communications; You are a

team player , and know how to balance different demands within your group and towards other people.

The Whole Package

Location:

Remote Our headquarters are in Firenze, Italy, but our flexible, distributed environment lets us work easily with remote people. Languages:

Italian, English While our technical team members are comfortable with English, some proficency in Italian is a requirement, as it is the shared language within Nephila and with Italian clients and partners.

Nephila offers: annual learning budget for courses, conferences, and more—for you own interests; personal learning plan with dedicated annual budget and a growth path built together, to match your growth aligned with Nephila evolution; access to public events and internal events or workshops organized by Nephila; laptop and tools for your daily work; personal presence in our Italian headquarters in Firenze can be occasionally required; accomodation and transport expenses are covered for non commuters; job agreements and healthcare are provided as per the Italian "CCNL Commercio" law, unless other agreements can be considered in reason of specific requirements or conditions.

You can send us your CV tojobs@nephila.digital . If reasonable accommodations are needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us at the same email address.

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