Software Engineer

Cathcart Technology
Edinburgh
1 year ago
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An Edinburgh-based tech-start up, working in the tech for good space, is looking for a skilled Python Software Engineer to join their hybrid team - genuinely interesting subject matter and real variety in work.They've been running for a few years now and are really starting to make a name for themselves, they have one core product and develop a series of applications that are critical within the research community in their field.They operate in the tech for good space, and everything you'll be working on will be used by academic researchers to provide them with tools and the ability to analyse their data to help form conclusions - they predominantly work in the environmental space.You'll work in a multidisciplinary team consisting of Data Scientist and Software Engineers, and will experience real variety in your role. You'll spend part of your time working on their core product, be tasked with developing multiple tools and applications from scratch, and helping to maintain and enhance existing applications. They work in a pretty fast paced environment due to the nature of their project work, so they are looking for someone that enjoys this style of working.As the project work is pretty varied, their tech stack is also quite similar. Predominantly they work in Python (moving towards FastAPI), they host applications on GCP, within a Linux environment and tend to use ReactJS for the front-end with a MongoDB database. However, they're looking f...

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