Python Engineer

We are looking for a candidate to join the firm’s development team. You will join a team that designs and develops applications used across our firm and will work hands-on with other developers, QA, and DevOps teams. The team interacts with key stakeholders such as Portfolio Managers, Front/Middle/Back Office, and Risk Managers. Additional responsibilities will include application release management, configuration, testing; and production troubleshooting.

Principal Responsibilities

• Design, build and refactor robust software applications with clean and concise code
• Partner with development team and customers to set priorities and provide solutions
• Migrate existing processes that allow direct database access to access
• Automation of system maintenance tasks, end-of-day processing jobs, data integrity checks and bulk data loads/extracts
• Participate in capacity planning and performance/throughput analysis
• Design and development of applications following Agile and continuous delivery practices
• Staying abreast of industry trends, new platforms and tools, and coming up with a business case to adopt new technologies

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software development
• 2+ years of experience in Python (analysis, application development, or system engineer)
• Strong knowledge of Unix or Linux
• Experience with writing and tuning SQL queries. Candidate should possess a strong fundamental understanding of relational databases
• Understanding of modern SDLC practices
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills. A desire to work in a collaborative environment
• Detail oriented – demonstrate thoroughness and strong ownership of your work

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with front office, risk, trading, or middle office applications
• Experience or working knowledge of Agile Practice or TDD (test driven development)
• Experience with GIT and JIRA, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy
• Cloud technology knowledge