Python Developer
Talentify · Oakland, United States ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Software engineering
- Experience
- 10+ years
12-month contract (extendable) Python engineer, hybrid with 3 days/week onsite in Oakland, CA, building automations and full-stack applications for Vanguard's Personalized Indexing portfolio management team to save time, cut costs, and mitigate risk. Core stack: Python, AWS (Lambda, ECS), GitHub.
About Us
Perfict Global is a leading IT consulting services provider focused on providing innovative and successful business workforce solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Our trained and experienced professionals constantly strive to bring together the best technologies available to manage client's complex business and technology, participate in implementation activities and collaborate in new ways to meet client needs.
We provide excellent benefits such as Medical, Dental, Vision ++ a fun company to work!!!
Job description
Title - Python Developer
Location/Hybrid: Oakland CA
Hybrid - 3/days onsite in Oakland CA office
Length: 12 months, possible to extend
Start/On-boarding Process
Once offer is made, they will do a background check (they run) that includes:
- 10 years background
- Drug test
- Finger Printing
* Timeline is 2 weeks from offer to start based on background process
Position: Python Engineer
This person will work with the Vanguard Personalized Indexing portfolio management team to design and build automations to improve the team's efficiency. Automate the collection of data needed for portfolio managers to make decisions. Determine when a local solution (e.g. scripts) is the right answer versus building a more robust enhancement into existing systems. Duties and responsibilities would include full-stack software development for the Vanguard Personalized Indexing portfolio managers. This contractor would work with the Oakland based portfolio management team to understand their workflow and develop applications which focus on time savings through automation, cost savings through optimization, and risk mitigation.
Must haves
- Investment systems knowledge (trading, securities, etc)
- Ability to effectively communicate with portfolio managers, work closely with them to rapidly build solutions
- Python strongly preferred
- Knowledge of AWS services like lambdas, ECS and AWS infrastructure
- GitHub
Preferred
- AWS certification
- Knowledge of investment systems strongly preferred