Data Python Engineer (Internal Tooling)

About Foodsteps Food systems account for nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the leading driver of biodiversity loss. In order to avoid the catastrophic consequences from both the climate and ecological crises, we must bring positive change to our food systems—fast. Foodsteps is on a mission to empower the food industry to accelerate its journey to net zero. By using our specialised food sustainability platform and bespoke services, businesses can: create product footprints in order to understand the carbon, land and water impact of their menus and products receive Scope 3 Assessments of their food and beverage supply chain produce detailed Life Cycle Assessments leverage our carbon labels and Food Stories in order to confidently educate customers and make credible sustainability claims.

The Role We are looking for an experienced Python engineer to create and maintain tools and services for use by our Professional Services team. This engineer will initially sit within the Data team alongside our data scientists, reporting to the Head of Data. Your role will include the creation of frontend interfaces using Streamlit or other frameworks, creation of tooling to automate processes, and oversight of central Python package. There is also the opportunity to offer mentorship to the analysts and others in the company as they develop their scripting skillset.

Job Requirements Must have 3+ years of professional Python development experience, standard developmental good practices, experience creating full stack web applications, the ability to autonomously spot possible solutions to problems and a “hacker mentality” to implement them, experience with picking up new technologies quickly in a fast-paced environment, experience working alongside client delivery teams and associated deadlines, and a passion for the Foodsteps’ mission and a drive for sustainability. Nice to have experience working alongside data scientists and machine learning applications, experience working with life-cycle assessments or in sustainability research, experience working in the food sector, experience setting up and maintaining services and infrastructure in AWS, and familiarity with some of our other key tech, including React, Typescript, Django, R or SQL.

Benefits Full range of benefits that Foodsteps offers including 27 paid holiday days, flexible working, volunteering days, and climate perks travel days. Welcoming office in Whitechapel, London with lots of snacks and a variety of working spaces. Based in the UK, in the office at least monthly for team days, with some flexibility around occasionally heading into the office for other workshops and meetings.