Software Engineer
Summary
Contract Software Engineer in London building a deal entry portal that feeds enterprise trading risk management (ETRM) systems for a global client. Day to day involves designing Python OOP APIs, working with distributed asynchronous systems, databases, and container/cloud tooling like Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Azure/AWS.
Software Engineer - API Development with Python
London
Certain Advantage are recruiting on behalf of our global client for a Software Engineer to work on a deal entry portal that feeds Enterprise Risk Management Systems (ETRMs).
As a Software Engineer contractor you'll be expected to work independently within defined work streams; using your understanding of large-scale application architecture and design, API development skills using Python, to design and develop solutions, as well as solve functional and technical problems regarding assigned applications and Infrastructure.
You'll be expected to communicate and engage effectively with internal and external technical and business stakeholders.
Skills sought:
- API development using Python as OOP
- Experience in how distributed asynchronous systems work, how to design them to avoid data conflicts and how to do it all in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines.
- Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB, Oracle
- Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub, or experience with any kind of message broker system (e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SQS etc)
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skill
- Object-orientated software professional that ideally has experience using at least one strongly-typed language
- Collaborate with the lead functional developer to define, develop, test, and release new features
- Provide workarounds & bug fixes for urgent production issues
- Familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
- Experience at mentoring junior staff