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Arqit is a global cybersecurity company delivering quantum-safe encryption to secure data and communications for enterprises, governments, and critical national infrastructure (CNI). Powered by its advanced symmetric key cryptography, Arqit offers scalable encryption that is resilient to quantum threats, ensuring robust data protection across sectors like telecoms, defence, and finance. Arqit has recently welcomed onboard the talented team from Ampliphae: this brings together Ampliphae’s industry-leading Encryption Intelligence products with Arqit’s quantum-encryption technology and global reach, delivering a comprehensive proposition to identify and mitigate cyber risk exposure from both current and quantum threats. Our combined company now has a new opportunity for a self-motivated and enthusiastic Senior Python Developer to join our friendly team based in Belfast. We can offer you fun and interesting work in both cloud and on-prem cybersecurity, and we have a great culture that gives you the opportunity to innovate, take ownership, and scale new heights in your career. On offer is a hybrid/remote way of working and the challenge of being involved in an innovative and complex environment where no two days are the same.
Job Responsibility:
Developing software for our Encryption Intelligence technology, working under the guidance of our software architects and other senior colleagues
Transforming architectural models into component designs ready to be incrementally developed, tested and deployed
Collaborating closely with our team of software, automation and DevOps engineers to implement, review, test and deploy full-stack software changes
Working extensively with Python, you will have the opportunity to train on Rust and AngularJS
Analysing the metrics of your deployment changes, ensuring high resiliency and performance is maintained, resolving issues if they arise
Fixing issues found internally and by our customers
Actively participating in Agile development activities and rituals, supporting the growth of the team and its members
Being open to receiving feedback and being willing to offer constructive feedback and support to others
Working closely with the Product Management team to help further refine requirements
Requirements:
Significant commercial experience of developing complex enterprise software and services
Demonstrable experience in building horizontally-scalable mission-critical enterprise software and services, preferably in a startup environment
Experience of cloud service development (public/hybrid/private cloud PaaS or SaaS)
Extensive experience of Python programming and best practice
Demonstrable passion for software development through self-learning, personal projects, competitions etc.
Experience of triage, RCA and fix for software issues within a distributed system
Competence in multiple programming languages
Experience of database development (SQL and NoSQL)
Experience with design patterns, refactoring, OO design and related areas
Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills
Demonstrate accountability for results whilst working with high autonomy
The right to live and work in the UK without restriction
Nice to have:
Experience working in cyber security
Experience in a start-up/scale-up
Agile or Kanban experience
Experience of consuming cloud services from the big 3 providers Cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS, Google)