Junior Python Developer

One of our blue chip, financial services company, are seeking a talented Junior Python Engineers to become part of our small team. You will have gained at least 2-3+ years within a similar role and come from a financial services background. The Junior Python Developer can have multiple responsibilities, building and maintaining Python applications and interacting with other developers, designers, and stakeholders on their projects. The individual must have the skills to write a plethora of unit tests for your code to guarantee all functionality is being achieved. You will need good collaboration and communication skills as you will be spending a lot of time with experienced engineers and understanding how they do their jobs. Familiarity with relational database schema design and SQL, and good python skills essential. Experience with cloud deployment, Kubernetes and Airflow would be an advantage.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Python application development, testing, and maintenance

• Working with other developers, designers, and stakeholders to satisfy project needs.

• Troubleshooting and code debugging

• Participating in code reviews and contributing to best practices for the team

• Maintaining current knowledge of emerging technologies, programming languages, and software

development techniques.

• Ensuring client feature requests are being evaluated and prioritized.

• Blending data storage options together.

• Optimizing existing databases reprogrammed to increase functionality.

• Improve responsiveness and overall performance by developing back-end components.

• Enhance the functionality of existing systems.

Requirements and Skills

• Proficiency in Python, with knowledge of popular libraries such as Pandas and NumPy.

• Understanding of TypeScript as a server-side language with basic familiarity in web development

frameworks like Angular.

• Knowledge of design software like Adobe InDesign is beneficial.

• Understanding of integration of many data sources into a single system.

• Ability to work collaboratively on projects as well as independently when necessary.

• Quick learner with the capacity to modify approaches dependent on the situation.

• Awareness of how to test Python programs successfully.

• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities

• Capable of combining many data sources and databases into a single system