Title: Senior Python Developer
Location: NY - VIRTUAL
Bill Rate: Market
Period: 05/27/2024 to 11/29/2024
Job Description:
Client is seeking an experienced software engineer who is a Python expert. Client is the world's leading resource for benchmarks and investable indices. 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. You will be part of Agile technology team in a global organization comprising of DEV/QA/PO teams.
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.
We are looking for the following in a candidate:
- 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.
- A strong team player: 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 5-8 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).
Technical Experience Requirements:
- 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.