Python Sr Developer

Overview

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

FinTech Settlement Project Python Software Engineer Job Description

Job Description Summary

We are a growing team of highly talented engineers working on a next-generation settlement process for our FinTech division built upon cloud services, microservices architecture, and immutable transactions.

Primary Accountabilities

• Technical (90%)
  • Active participation in agile (scrum) development team
  • Participation in backlog refinement and sprint planning sessions; Task definition and estimation from epics / user stories
  • Design and modification of new and existing features, implementation, unit testing, and support of quality assurance and customer testing
  • Participation in code reviews
  • Ability to identify bottlenecks and recommend or implement performance optimizations
• Operational (10%)
  • Compliance with established management procedures, company and department standards & best practices
  • Adherence to documented security, and confidentiality

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems and/or related work experience (open source web services development)
• 3+ years of Python development experience with Django
• Strong object-oriented design and programming skills
• Experience in developing RESTful web services
• Experience writing unit and functional tests
• Experience with SQL, database programming and use of ORMs
• Familiarity using GitHub, Jira
• Must be comfortable in Linux

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud computing (AWS preferred) and open source technologies
• Knowledge of SAAS, PAAS and IAAS technologies and SOA/microservices concepts
• Knowledge of DevOps concepts such as CI/CD and infrastructure as code (IaaC).

Individual Competencies

• Integrity: Gains the trust of others by taking responsibility for ones own actions and telling the truth.
• Teamwork: Builds relationships and works cooperatively with others, inside and outside the organization, to accomplish objectives to build and maintain mutually-beneficial partnerships, leverage information and achieve results.
• Adaptable: Responds to change with a willingness to learn new ways to accomplish work objectives with a positive attitude.
• Innovative: Ability to develop, sponsor, or support the introduction of new and improved methods, products, procedures or technologies.
• Curious: A desire to inquire and learn, to seek new knowledge and wisdom, and to listen to the contributions of others with a genuine interest to better self, the team, and the organization.
• Analytical and Critical Thinking: Ability to tackle a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach.
• Problem Solving: Gathers and analyzes information to generate and evaluate potential solutions to problems, issues and challenges while weighing the accuracy and relevance of the facts, data and information.
• Physical Demands