Sr Python Developer

Job Overview

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 core banking platform.

Job Title

Sr Python Developer

Location: Toronto, 5 days onsite

Job Type: Contract

Responsibilities and Duties

• Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of large features within your team that could span 3+ months.
• 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.
• Peer review other engineers’ code.
• Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers.

Qualifications And Skills

• Experience on system design, ability to articulate a good solution and a system that will scale and respond well to system failures and unexpected issues with downstream dependencies.
• 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.
• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Excellent communication and organization skills.
• Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Familiar with *nix like environments.
• Build and integration experience with Payroll Providers and Time & Attendance platforms is highly desirable.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology