Job Description
UKG is looking to hire a Senior Python Developer to join our extremely talented Data Science team. As a Python Developer at UKG, you’ll be embedded on the Data Science team where you can work on the next generation AI Platform. You’ll get to work directly with other Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Quality Engineers, Product Managers, and Directors, all of whom make up the team. In this highly collaborative environment, you will have the opportunity to grow as a software engineer.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with members of the team to solve challenging engineering tasks on time and with high quality.
- Engage in code reviews from other team members.
- Support continuous deployment pipeline code.
- Situationally troubleshoot production issues alongside the support team.
- Create and integrate features for our enterprise software solution using the latest Python technologies.
- Actively communicate with team members to clarify requirements and overcome obstacles to meet the team goals.
- Leverage open-source and other technologies and languages outside of the Python platform.
- Develop cutting-edge solutions to maximize the performance, scalability, and distributed processing capabilities of the system.
- Provide troubleshooting and root cause analysis for production issues that are escalated to the engineering team.
- Work with development teams in an agile context as it relates to software development, including Kanban, automated unit testing, test fixtures, and pair programming.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 3-5 or more years experience as a Python developer on enterprise projects using Python, Flask, FastAPI, Django, PyTest, Celery, and other Python frameworks.
- Software development experience including: object-oriented programming, concurrency programming, modern design patterns, RESTful service implementation, micro-service architecture, test-driven development, and acceptance testing.
- Proficiency with Git as a version control system.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with testing tools such as PyTest, Wiremock, xUnit, mocking frameworks, etc.
- Experience with GCP technologies such as BigQuery, GKE, GCS, DataFlow, Kubeflow, and/or VertexAI.
Preferred qualifications:
- Familiarity with tools used to automate the deployment of an enterprise software solution to the cloud, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Concourse, Ansible, etc.
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including MongoDB and MSSQL.
- Experience with object-oriented languages: Python, Java, Scala, C#, etc.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- Experience with Java and Spring a big plus.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computational Linguistics, or a similar field.
Disclaimer
*Quebec candidates: While French is required for Quebec roles, use of the English language is also required due to the global nature of the business and the need to interact with UKG US headquarters and international sites.