Senior Development Engineer – Python Full Stack

Responsibilities and Impact

• You will be working on one of the key systems that is responsible for calculating re-balancing weights and asset selections for S&P indices. Ultimately, the output of this team is used to maintain some of the most recognized and important investable assets globally.
• Development of RESTful web services and databases; supporting UI development requirements.
• Interfacing with various AWS infrastructure and services, deploying to Docker environment.
• Coding, Documentation, Testing, Debugging, Documentation and tier-3 support.
• Work directly with stakeholders and technical architect to formalize/document requirements for both supporting existing application as well as new initiatives.
• Perform Application & System Performance tuning and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Coordinately closely with the QA team and the scrum master to optimize team velocity and task flow.
• Helps establish and maintain technical standards via code reviews and pull requests

What's in it for you This is an opportunity to work on a team of highly talented and motivated engineers at a highly respected company. You will work on new development as well as enhancements to existing functionality.

What Were Looking For:

Basic Qualifications

• 7 - 10 years of IT experience in application development and support, primarily in a back-end API and database development roles with at least some UI development experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience.
• Proficiency in modern Python 3.10+ (minimum 4 years dedicated, recent Python experience)
• AWS services experience including API Gateway, ECS / Docker, DynamoDB, S3, Kafka, SQS.
• SQL database experience, with at least 1 year of Postgres.
• Python libraries experience including Pydantic, SQLAlchemy and at least one of (Flask, FastAPI, Sanic), focusing on creating RESTful endpoints for data services.
• JavaScript / Typescript experience and at least one of (Vue 3, React, Angular)
• Strong unit testing skills with PyTest or UnitTest, and API testing using Postman or Bruno.
• CI/CD build process experience using Jenkins.
• Experience with software testing (unit testing, integration testing, test driven development).
• Strong Work Ethic and good communication skills.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Basic understanding of financial markets (stocks, funds, indices, etc.)
• Experience working in mission-critical enterprise organizations
• A passion for creating high quality code and broad unit test coverage.
• Ability to understand complex business problems, break into smaller executable parts, and delegate.