Position
Senior Software Engineer(Python)
Job Description
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.
Responsibilities
- 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 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-paced 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