Python Developer

Python Developer

Location: Charlotte, NC

Work Arrangement: Onsite/hybrid as required by team

Duration: 12-18 month Contract

Employment Type: Contract

W2 ONLY

Job Summary

The Global Risk Analytics Technology team is seeking a Python Developer to join a team developing a core technology platform, similar to a mini-version of Quartz. The developer will be responsible for true end-to-end application development, building scalable platform components and contributing to the performance, stability, and maintainability of the core platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build horizontally scalable components within the core platform.
• Develop Python applications end to end from scratch.
• Write reusable, extensible, and maintainable code.
• Apply strong object-oriented programming principles and Python modules.
• Review code and provide feedback focused on best practices, performance, and stability.
• Become a subject matter expert on code deployed to the platform.
• Provide technical support and guidance to other developers.
• Build distributed and scalable services and robust microservices.
• Work with Spark and data stored within Hadoop and Hive environments.
• Write and maintain unit tests.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Identify opportunities to simplify software and improve maintainability.
• Continuously improve development practices, code quality, performance, and platform reliability.

Required Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of software development experience.
• Expert-level Python development experience.
• Proven experience developing complete applications from scratch through deployment/run-time, rather than primarily scripting or integration work.
• Strong understanding of:
• Object-oriented programming
• Python modules
• Application structure and execution
• Functional programming
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with relational, document, and NoSQL databases.
• Experience building distributed and scalable services.
• Experience developing robust microservices.
• Experience writing unit tests using pytest or unittest.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Experience with Spark.
• Experience working with Hadoop and Hive or environments where data is stored on Hadoop/Hive.
• Strong ownership, urgency, problem-solving ability, and willingness to learn.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Previous experience with Quartz is helpful but not required.