Job Summary

Do you have a passion for developing leading edge, high quality and robust innovative product solutions? This is the perfect role for innovative thinking Python developers. You will be part of a product development team responsible for the full development life cycle process from technical analysis design, development, integration and testing, deployment, modification, and maintenance of industry-leading product Innovation solutions for the Maritime industry.

As a Python Developer at NAVTOR, you will design, build, and maintain backend services and data-driven applications that power our maritime solutions. You will collaborate closely with product teams, data scientists, and cloud engineers to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance software that supports thousands of vessels worldwide

Core Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain Python-based services and APIs for NAVTOR’s digital navigation and fleet management products.

• Collaborate in designing microservices architecture and integrating with cloud infrastructure.

• Responsible for the design, development, modification, maintenance, testing and deployment of Navtor products and services. 

• Participate in code reviews and share knowledge with team members.

• Develop fully integrated front-end solutions with backend API’s and services.

• Responsible for associated solution design specification and documentation.

• Participate in design, develop and maintain database solutions associated to data driven solutions.

• Provide technical analysis and design requirements and documentation.

• Software development as part of a SCRUM team following agreed work backlogs

• Develop to high quality coding standards.

• As part of the full development life cycle, you will be responsible for Unit Testing and contribute with Automated and Performance Testing.

• Maintain and develop a thorough and up-to-date working technical knowledge of digital solutions and the Navtor product suite.

• Maintain a detailed technical understanding of our products, systems, technologies, architecture, and data sets.

• Provide advanced technical support escalated from the development support team for all Navtor product solutions, systems, and data sets.

• Scope and define detailed technical product backlog item descriptions that feed into sprint planning.

• Provide effective technical analysis, design requirements and relevant documentation.

   It should be noted that the above list of main duties and responsibilities is not necessarily a complete statement of the final duties of the post.

  Qualifications

• A University diploma/degree in a related field

Skills & Experience – Essential

• 5–8+ years of professional experience in software development, including at least 5+ years with Python (i.e. 3.8+) Recent experience.

• Proficiency in building RESTful APIs and Microservices (e.g., Flask, Django, FastAPI)

• Experience mentoring developers, conducting code reviews.

• Strong experience designing modular, maintainable, and scalable applications.

• Solid understanding of OOP, functional programming, and design patterns

• Good working knowledge and understanding of Relational / NoSQL / MongoDB
  data driven solutions.

• Participate in Agile/Scrum teams, helping refine requirements, estimate, and deliver features.

• Familiarity with microservices architectures and secure communication (i.e. JWT, OAuth2).

• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines (i.e. Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI targeting Azure)

• Experience with Python Libraries and Frameworks (i.e. Pandas, NumPy, PySpark)

Desirable

• API versioning, authentication & authorization (i.e. OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT)

• Implemented unit testing and end-to-end testing (i.e. pytest, unittest).

• Experience with containerisation (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes)