Sr. Python Developer

Position Title: Senior Python Developer

Location: Onsite in McLean, VA with 3 days of hybrid (Tue, Wed, Thursday)

Type: Contract - C2C

Position Overview:

The Financial Engineering team is seeking Python Developers for a large strategic financial project. The position is focused on Python development of components for a software application platform that will produce enterprise-level reporting based on financial statements and models. The candidate will develop and support the middle layer of the application to build, test, and deploy RESTful micro services, create shared services components, and collaborate with other Dev teams, Dev Ops, and User Interface teams.

Responsibilities include:

• Engineer capable of designing solutions, writing code, testing code, automating test and deployment
• Develop and maintain high-quality software code and automated tests (including Unit, Functional, Performance, and Acceptance) for web interface application that integrates data, analytics, and reporting components
• Predictable results: changes in code can be proven to be correct and bug-free
• Production resilience: the system must be highly available with minimal downtime
• High performance: develop scalable calculations to maintain performance over large data sets
• Ready, willing, and able to pick up new technologies and pitch in on story tasks (design, code, test, CI/CD, deploy, etc.)

Technical Skills:

• Strong Proficiency in Python programming language, including experience with frameworks such as Flask, Django and FastAPI
• Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture, and an understanding of how to design and implement them effectively.

Back End Skills: Python, Django/Flask/FastAPI, NumPy, pandas and Relational Database

Refactoring Skills: Knowledge of how to refactor code to improve its quality, maintainability, performance, and scalability while preserving its functionality.

Build CI/CD Tools: Gradle, Jenkins, git, Conda, pip, Jira, Gitlab, Confluence

DevOps: Linux & Docker

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, ideally in Financial Engineering, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Prior experience with financial services companies is desired but not necessary.