Sr Python Developer
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Summary
Build and scale a core banking platform using Python, microservices, and cloud-native tools like Docker and RabbitMQ.
Job Overview
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building highly scalable solutions based on a microservices architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working with a highly skilled cross‑functional team to enhance our core banking platform.
Job Title
Sr Python Developer
Location: Toronto, 5 days onsite
Job Type: Contract
Responsibilities and Duties
- Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements.
- Own the end-to-end delivery of large features within your team that could span 3+ months.
- Create technical design specifications in collaboration with other members of the engineering team.
- Provide estimates and actively participate in the sprint planning process.
- Produce highly secure solutions.
- Tune the performance of our distributed system to ensure they operate within our SLAs.
- Peer review other engineers’ code.
- Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers.
Qualifications And Skills
- Experience on system design, ability to articulate a good solution and a system that will scale and respond well to system failures and unexpected issues with downstream dependencies.
- Experience with cloud computing and container‑based distributed systems (Docker).
- Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL) and high proficiency with SQL.
- Understanding of higher level RDBMS concepts (locking and transaction model, isolation levels, deadlocks, etc.).
- Significant experience with at least one dynamically typed, object‑oriented programming language (preference for Python).
- Great understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
- Hands‑on experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ.
- Deep understanding of RESTful API development.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast‑pace customer‑centric environment.
- 5+ years of experience in software development.
- Excellent communication and organization skills.
- Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- Familiar with *nix like environments.
- Build and integration experience with Payroll Providers and Time & Attendance platforms is highly desirable.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology