Contract Backend Engineer Required:

The Planet Group have recently been engaged by a US based content rating and forum organisation to secure a backend engineer on a 6 month contract. (Hourly / Daily rate)

Position Overview:

You will be joining a team building services that analyse our content, extracting semantic information with machine learning models, and serves it through different APIs. As a backend engineer you will be responsible for maintaining different services, building new features, and keeping the systems operational.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• System design. This requires a good understanding of how the systems work, with particular focus on latency and scalability.
• Development. MLU works mainly with Python and Go. Skills in testing, SOLID and design patterns are a must
• Systems architecture. MLU makes extensive use of Kubernetes, Kafka and Postgres, and many internal and third party APIs, with focus on resilience, monitoring and alerting, and automation

Technical Skills Required:

• Python (Programming Language)
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Design Patterns
• Go
• Google Cloud
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL

Desirable Skills:

• Google BigQuery
• ML Systems
• Terraform

If you would like to find out more, please get in touch with Ryan Deeble on (phone number removed) / (phone number removed)

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