Python Software Developer

Job Description

Key responsibilities Work as part of a delivery team, collaborating with others to understand and capture requirements, analyse and refine stories, design solutions, implement them, test them and support them in production. Design and develop excellent and understandable server side code. Work closely with users to gain feedback and ensure they are fit for purpose. Use BDD techniques, collaborating closely with users, analysts, developers and other testers. Make sure we are building the right thing. Write code and write it well. Be proud to call yourself a programmer. Use test driven development, write clean code and refactor constantly. Make sure we are building the thing right. Define and evolve the architecture of the components you are working on. Contribute to architectural decisions at a department and bank-wide level. Ensure that the software you build is reliable and easy to support in production. Be prepared to take your turn on call providing 3rd line support when its needed Help your team build, test and release software with the short lead times and a minimum of waste. Work to develop and maintain a highly automated Continuous Delivery pipeline. Help create a culture of learning and continuous improvement within your team and beyond Skills and experience Experience with Python for building server-side code Experience of modern Python libraries, including PySpark, Pandas numpy, scikit-learn, etc. Experience of server side programming, preferably using Python Flask Working knowledge of back-end data software - SQL (Impala/Oracle), SQL Alchemy Understanding of back-end design, including REST services, SQL data access, Experience working in an agile team, practicing Scrum or Kanban Desire to write robust, maintainable & re-usable code Practical experience of TDD and constant refactoring in continuous integration environment. Practical experience of delivering good quality code within enterprise scale development (CI/CD) Supporting academic background in computer science (graduate)