Python Developer III_US - New York, United States - Informatic Technologies

Description

As a developer in this role, you will contribute to building a system that has a broad global impact on the stability of financial markets and to the results of individual investors.

The project involves backend development in Python for a data calculations engine that provides services to multiple enterprise systems for calculating financial markets.

The team is comprised of all senior level engineers who strive to maintain a high standard for code quality and performance.

Candidates for this role must be detail-oriented, enjoy the challenge of solving difficult problems, and strive to create efficient, elegant code.

• A Python expert. This is not a role for script writers. You should have several years of proven object-oriented programming expertise and full-system development mentality. You also need to understand code abstraction and architectural design patterns.
• You enjoy solving complex technical challenges.
• Always curious and wanting to learn.
• Strives to create elegant, efficient code.
• Has experience creating frameworks and libraries used by other teams.

Focused on success of the team - completing sprint goals and aligning with the objectives of the larger organization.

• Detail oriented. We do precise mathematical calculations to very small decimal places.
• Algorithm and/or mathematical computation skills. Ideally you would enjoy solving mathematics or statistics problems through code.
• Takes ownership of parts of the project: not just waiting for task assignments, but constantly looking for ways to improve the system.
• Must communicate and collaborate well in Agile team of - 8 engineers and QA, balancing individual tasks with larger team goals.
• Initiative-taking and delivery focused. Able to produce quality results from only high-level direction, and iteratively commits PRs to collaborate with the team.
• Comfortable working in large enterprise organizations on mission critical software.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience.
• A solid understanding of financial markets (stocks, bonds, ETFs, indexes).

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong object-oriented design skills, and a background working with modular systems, including code abstraction and design patterns
• Current and proficient at Python versions 3.9+, and the ability to demonstrate expert level concepts. Experience in other object-oriented languages is helpful (Java, C++, etc.) but candidates must be a strong Python expert.
• Strong Pandas and Numpy experience.
• Experience with creating command line interface tools (CLI)
• Demonstrated ability to maintain detailed, fine-grained unit tests and to maintain large test suites
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipeline scan/test/build/deploy processes. Jenkins experience preferred.
• Experience building distributed Python packages and containerized applications including Docker
• AWS cloud infrastructure experience including ECR, ECS, S3.