Python Developer

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Sr Software Engineer, PythonResponsible for providing strategic guidance, designs, and solution patterns to team members, is the “chief architect” for a sub-product/s. Serves as a driver and collaborator throughout development life cycle, partnering with business analysts and customers to review and optimize requirements; and, working with developers to review and validate key functionality and integration. Responsible for ensuring feasibility of design and integration with existing systems/platforms.Requirements:

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· Expert level knowledge of Python 3, Object-Oriented Code & Design Patterns

· Strong Experience with Python frameworks (e.g. Fast API, Flask, Django)

· Strong Experience with REST APIs

· Strong Experience with Git

· Strong Experience Writing Unit Tests

· Experience with Event Driven Systems & Microservices

· Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and serverless

· Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Cloudformation & CDK)

· Knowledge of Databases (SQL, NoSQL)

· Knowledge of DevOps Practices (CI/CD, Automated Pipelines)

· Experience with Agile, Scrum, Jira

· Attention to Detail

· Provide technical leadership and guidance to more junior engineers

· Self Starter (Able to to work alone with minimal direction but also able to work within the team.)

· Capable of owning technical design for projects of moderate complexity, and understands the tradeoffs in creating good software

· Ability to understand the capabilities and limitation of existing software and demonstrate a preference to extend, re-use and integrate with them effectively while also improving them

· Demonstrated track record of making reasonable design tradeoffs between short term results and building for the long term

· Demonstrated ability to understand and actively participate in team's scrum activities and rituals as well as help others to understand and embrace them

· Demonstrates behaviors which are aligned with the organization’s desired culture and values

Qualifications

· Degree in computer science, engineering or similar major

· 5 years of experience with software development

· Deep understanding of and experience with modern python (3.x)

· Demonstrated ability to master at least one major skill outside of core coding such as monitoring, documentation, security, integration testing, visual design, devops, performance optimization

· Demonstrated track record of creating significant improvements across business-critical product ecosystems around stability, security, performance, and scalability

· Demonstrated ability to understand, facilitate or actively participate in multi team or multi sub-product scrum activities and rituals, help others to understand them

· Demonstrated ability to effectively convey complex technical topics in ways that that could be easily understood by engineers, POs, PMs or nontechnical colleagues

· Able to collaborate across teams and build systems to address architectural gaps

· Capable of leading small to midsize epic level efforts

· Financial Services and, if possible, mortgage industry experience preferred

· Strong business acumen and ability to interface with executive management