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Senior Python Engineer
Senior Python Engineer
Senior Python Engineer
Posted 2 days ago
- London, Greater London
- Any
- External
Python Engineer - Fully Remote - VC-backed AI Startup
## Company Description
Foxy is a cutting-edge AI platform that allows influencers, celebrities, and content creators to create AI twins of themselves, allowing their fans to interact 24/7 in any language. Featuring state-of-the-art AI large language models (LLMs) and image generation, Foxy is at the forefront of AI development.
## Your Role
We seek a passionate and highly skilled Python Engineer to join our dynamic, fully remote international team.
Your job will involve working across Foxy’s multiple production and production-supporting Python projects, ensuring the highest code quality, efficiency, and performance standards. You will bring the latest best practices in Python development, streamline our codebases, and introduce modern libraries and methodologies that can significantly enhance our productivity.
You’ll also lead in fostering a culture of excellence in Python coding, implementing rigorous standards, and mentoring the team on writing clean, efficient, well-tested, and fully documented code.
You will work on and take primary ownership of multiple Python production projects and will need to support these through the entire dev/staging/production lifecycle. You will also extend and maintain multiple production-supporting projects, such as frameworks for building datasets for LLM training and AI image generation.
No prior AI/ML experience is required, but there will regularly be opportunities to interact with and learn about cutting-edge AI/ML systems for text (LLMs) and images.
## Our Tools & Methodologies
- Programming Language: Python 3.11+, fully typed, with a strong emphasis on testing, code efficiency, and DRY.
- Code Quality Tools: Pyright, Ruff, Black.
- Development Practices: Test-Driven Development (TDD), CI/CD, continuous code reviews, and peer programming.
- Infrastructure: Linux, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub, VSCode
- Collaboration: Asynchronous text-based communication (Slack) with regular voice/video meetings; 100% remote.
## Your Experience
- Python Expertise: Extensive experience with Python 3.x, with a deep understanding of Python best practices and design patterns.
- Python typing: Proficient with Python typing, writing 100% typed code with zero errors, validated with Pyright/mypy. Familiar with the latest typing features (Python 3.11+).
- Unit testing: Experienced with TDD, using testing libraries such as unittest, Pytest, Behave and similar.
- Coding Standards: Passionate about enforcing high coding standards, ensuring code is well designed, has zero typing errors, and is thoroughly tested before committing.
- Concurrency: Experienced writing highly concurrent, thread-safe code using asyncio, ThreadPool, ProcessPool, and similar frameworks and methodologies.
- REST: Experienced using FastAPI/uvicorn or similar for creating REST endpoints and providing UIs.
- Pydantic: Experienced with Pydantic 2.x for type-safe data validation and as an advanced data class.
- Databases: Experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL and document storage systems such as MongoDB.
- AI: Comfortable using AI coding tools such as ChatGPT, Github CoPilot, Codeium, and other coding LLMs to work faster and more efficiently (without being reliant upon them.)
## Your Profile
- Experience: Proven track record in a critical commercial project or significant open-source contributions to projects where coding standards are strictly enforced.
- Environment: Experience working in environments where automated testing, continuous integration, and peer code reviews are mandatory.
- Code Review & Mentorship: Ability to lead by example in code reviews and mentor other developers in upholding high coding standards.
- Innovative Problem Solving: Able to proactively identify inefficiencies in code design and propose and implement more effective solutions.
## What We Offer
- Impact: A pivotal role in setting the standard for Python development within our company and shaping the future of our AI-driven projects.
- Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning, regular challenges, and knowledge exchange to enhance your skills.
- Culture: A fully remote, flexible environment in a dynamic, fast-growing company.
- Team: Work with a world-class, ambitious, and supportive team.
- Engagement: Participate in team and company events and regular get-togethers.
- Reward: A competitive package consisting of salary and equity, including stock options, so that you can share in the successes that lie ahead.
If you are a Python expert with a passion for coding excellence and believe you have the skills and experience we seek, we would love to hear from you! :rocket:
## Company Description
Foxy is a cutting-edge AI platform that allows influencers, celebrities, and content creators to create AI twins of themselves, allowing their fans to interact 24/7 in any language. Featuring state-of-the-art AI large language models (LLMs) and image generation, Foxy is at the forefront of AI development.
## Your Role
We seek a passionate and highly skilled Python Engineer to join our dynamic, fully remote international team.
Your job will involve working across Foxy’s multiple production and production-supporting Python projects, ensuring the highest code quality, efficiency, and performance standards. You will bring the latest best practices in Python development, streamline our codebases, and introduce modern libraries and methodologies that can significantly enhance our productivity.
You’ll also lead in fostering a culture of excellence in Python coding, implementing rigorous standards, and mentoring the team on writing clean, efficient, well-tested, and fully documented code.
You will work on and take primary ownership of multiple Python production projects and will need to support these through the entire dev/staging/production lifecycle. You will also extend and maintain multiple production-supporting projects, such as frameworks for building datasets for LLM training and AI image generation.
No prior AI/ML experience is required, but there will regularly be opportunities to interact with and learn about cutting-edge AI/ML systems for text (LLMs) and images.
## Our Tools & Methodologies
- Programming Language: Python 3.11+, fully typed, with a strong emphasis on testing, code efficiency, and DRY.
- Code Quality Tools: Pyright, Ruff, Black.
- Development Practices: Test-Driven Development (TDD), CI/CD, continuous code reviews, and peer programming.
- Infrastructure: Linux, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub, VSCode
- Collaboration: Asynchronous text-based communication (Slack) with regular voice/video meetings; 100% remote.
## Your Experience
- Python Expertise: Extensive experience with Python 3.x, with a deep understanding of Python best practices and design patterns.
- Python typing: Proficient with Python typing, writing 100% typed code with zero errors, validated with Pyright/mypy. Familiar with the latest typing features (Python 3.11+).
- Unit testing: Experienced with TDD, using testing libraries such as unittest, Pytest, Behave and similar.
- Coding Standards: Passionate about enforcing high coding standards, ensuring code is well designed, has zero typing errors, and is thoroughly tested before committing.
- Concurrency: Experienced writing highly concurrent, thread-safe code using asyncio, ThreadPool, ProcessPool, and similar frameworks and methodologies.
- REST: Experienced using FastAPI/uvicorn or similar for creating REST endpoints and providing UIs.
- Pydantic: Experienced with Pydantic 2.x for type-safe data validation and as an advanced data class.
- Databases: Experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL and document storage systems such as MongoDB.
- AI: Comfortable using AI coding tools such as ChatGPT, Github CoPilot, Codeium, and other coding LLMs to work faster and more efficiently (without being reliant upon them.)
## Your Profile
- Experience: Proven track record in a critical commercial project or significant open-source contributions to projects where coding standards are strictly enforced.
- Environment: Experience working in environments where automated testing, continuous integration, and peer code reviews are mandatory.
- Code Review & Mentorship: Ability to lead by example in code reviews and mentor other developers in upholding high coding standards.
- Innovative Problem Solving: Able to proactively identify inefficiencies in code design and propose and implement more effective solutions.
## What We Offer
- Impact: A pivotal role in setting the standard for Python development within our company and shaping the future of our AI-driven projects.
- Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning, regular challenges, and knowledge exchange to enhance your skills.
- Culture: A fully remote, flexible environment in a dynamic, fast-growing company.
- Team: Work with a world-class, ambitious, and supportive team.
- Engagement: Participate in team and company events and regular get-togethers.
- Reward: A competitive package consisting of salary and equity, including stock options, so that you can share in the successes that lie ahead.
If you are a Python expert with a passion for coding excellence and believe you have the skills and experience we seek, we would love to hear from you! :rocket: