Full-Time Senior Python Developer

Who are we looking for

We'™re looking for an experienced Python developer who loves to build innovative and high-quality products. As part of a senior and highly committed team you will use Python'™s latest patterns and libraries such as FastAPI to build core backend services for our products. You will come into contact with infrastructure such as Kafka and Kubernetes, expose your services as OpenAPI 3.0 services, and you will work in an environment where quality comes first enforced by automated continuous deployment procedures. Consumers of your services are both mobile apps and web apps managed by InvestSuite as well as 3rd party services and applications. The first consumer using your service will be a Javascript-based console (written in React) for wealth managers to manage and improve their customer'™s investment portfolios.

Main responsibilities

• Deploy applications that meet our customer'™s highest demands in terms of performance, availability and security
• Design and implement clean and scalable public and internal services
• Promote practices that improve development velocity and quality of life for the whole team.
• Identify, track, solution, and plan Python technical debt.

Target profile & traits

• Highly driven and committed - you deliver high-quality products within deadlines
• Solution-minded - you avoid politics & find effective ways to get the job done
• Direct and open - you are always willing to share and speak your mind
• Smart and creative - you find creative ways to get things done & accomplish goals
• Customer centric - you seek to delight customers/users with all your work
• Quality-minded - you deliver top quality & expect the same from others
• Naturally curious - you crave new knowledge & best practices about your field

Required skills & experience

• Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar field - or equivalent professional experience
• At least 4 years of Python experience (not counting education)
• Knowledge about / experience with:
  • FastAPI
  • Pydantic
  • Pandas, Numpy, Jupyter
  • pre-commit (the Python tool, not the git hook)
  • type annotations in Python including checks with mypy
  • Poetry package manager
• English fluency - spoken & written
• Proactivity & problem solving skills. Proactive in solving risks and issues in a timely manner, or to re-prioritize on close collaboration with the product owner if required
• Experience with agile project approaches (Scrum)

Other skills & experience we would love to see

• Knowledge & experience with reactive architecture, microservices and containerization technologies such as Docker
• Experience with various cloud environments: AWS, Azure & OpenStack
• Expertise in writing unit tests and end to end platform integration tests
• Experience with automated build, test and deploy pipelines
• Knowledge of cloud and serverless architectures as well as infrastructure as code
• Passion for technologies for distributed messaging such as Kafka, Akka
• Affinity with financial markets and wealth management