Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Toronto, Canada (5 Days Onsite)

Notes: Software Engineer role focused on Python and building web APIs

(must be good in python coding)

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building highly scalable solutions based on a microservices architecture.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working with a highly skilled cross functional team to enhance our banking platform.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements.
• Create technical design specifications in collaboration with other members of the engineering team.
• Provide estimates and actively participate in the sprint planning process.
• Produce highly secure solutions.
• Tune the performance of our distributed system to ensure they operate within our SLAs.
• Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers.

Qualifications and Skills

• Experience with cloud computing and container-based distributed systems (Docker).

• Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL) and high proficiency with SQL.

• Understanding of higher-level RDBMS concepts (locking and transaction model, isolation levels, deadlocks, etc.).

• Significant experience with at least one dynamically typed, object-oriented programming. language (preference for Python).

• Great understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.

• Hands-on experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ.

• Deep understanding of restful API development.

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast pace customer centric environment.

• 7+ years of experience in software development.

• Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.

• Familiar with *nix like environments.