Assistant Digital Engineer

Assistant Digital Engineer at Mott MacDonald

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy committed to delivering impactful work that shapes the future. We are a team of over 20,000 experts working across the world in more than 50 countries.

We are proud to be part of an ever-changing global industry, delivering transformative work that’s defining our future. It’s our people who power that performance. As an employee-owned business, we invest in creating a space for everyone to feel safe and valued and empowered with the right tools and support.

Whether you want to pursue excellence in your specialism or broaden your experience with flexible roles across our business, you’ll be connected to a community of global experts championing you to be your best. Join us and shape your story with Mott MacDonald, where everyone has the opportunity to be brilliant.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Actively participate in ideation, design, development, and deployment of web solutions, aligned with business objectives.
• Design and deploy Proof of Concepts (POCs) and Points of View (POVs) across various industry verticals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate POC and upscaled solutions into cloud environments (Azure).

Requirements And Specifications

• Candidate should have 5+ years of experience with full stack software development skills with backend development in Python and frontend development in React and/or Typescript.
• Hands on with Unit Test, usage of Python PEP8 Standards, Performing Peer Programming/Code Reviews.
• Excellent understanding in and experience in REST API designing and hand-on experience on using FastAPI, Flask etc.
• Should have experience in Python testing frameworks.
• Deployment knowledge on any Cloud platform: Azure, AWS, Google.
• Knowledge of dockers and CI/CD pipeline.
• Excellent understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts, Multithreading/Multiprocessing, Memory Management etc.
• Good with Data structures, Algorithms.
• Excellent hands on with Databases (PosgreSQL/MSSQL etc); Good at writing SQL queries.
• ORM Frameworks: SQL Alchemy/ any ORM libraries (Object Relational Mapper).
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills (Client side, Server side, Database).
• Understanding and designing high level design/low level design architectures for software systems.
• Source code version management systems like Git (preferred), SVN, Mercury etc.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and fundamentals including data structures and algorithms, design patterns, messaging patterns, containerization, and enterprise application.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Passion to build software products.

Desirable Skills

• Experience contributing to the architecture/design of new or current applications (frontends, design patterns, reliability, scaling, automation).
• Knowledge of cloud tools like Azure and exposure to DevOps practices like CI/CD will be an added advantage.
• Nice to know about the following: Exposure to Generative AI applications software building is an added advantage but not mandatory, Streamlit/Plotly-Dash/NiceGUI, Kubernetes and Microservices, Browser rendering behaviour and performance, Agile Methodology, NoSQL (MongoDB or equivalents), Experience with Token Authentication Mechanisms (JWT etc), Overview of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science.
• Relevant Azure Certifications will be an added advantage.

Key skills/competency

• Full Stack Development
• Python
• React
• TypeScript
• REST API Design
• Cloud Platforms
• CI/CD
• Databases
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Data Structures & Algorithms