Python Developer

Responsibilities of the Python Developer

• Work to synthesize requirements gathered from multiple teams inside and outside IT and suggest creative solutions – where appropriate guiding us to “do it the right way.”
• Organize with end users, business analysts, and other architects and developers following a scrum methodology.
• Develop and maintain new and existing applications for use by our Middle Office teams
• Collaborate in standardizing the development processes including technology selection, deployment steps, code reviews and IT tools.

Requirements of the Python Developer

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or other related discipline (although strong experience with a less directly related degree will be considered)
• Minimum of 5 years’ of experience developing large-scale Python applications with integrated testing framework.
• Formal problem solving and/or analytical training/experience a plus.
• Heavy Testing Framework expertise in a large-scale Python application (preferably at a Financial Services firm) – including the ability to write proper test-cases and implement/design testing frameworks in using PyTest, DocTest and Nose Tests.
• Must be a proponent of the software development best practices including unit, functional and integration testing of the code he/she writes and good change management practice in a continuous integration environment.
• Experience using Git/GitHub setup, integration, branching, merging and pull-request based code reviews.
• Ability to write high performing SQL queries, procs, tables and views
• Experience profiling and optimizing code for performance
• Experience working with Real-Time or distributed processing systems a big plus
• Practical understanding of design patterns and a good intuition for system design