Senior Lead Development Engineer - Python Full Stack

Grade Level (for internal use):

• Design and development of RESTful web services and with closely with UI developers
• Interfacing with various AWS infrastructure and services, deploying to Containerization technology environment.
• Coding, Documentation, Testing, Debugging, Documentation and tier-3 support.
• Taking ownership of code modules and leading code review processes.
• Work directly with stakeholders and technical architect to formalize/document requirements for both supporting existing application as well as new initiatives.
• Perform Application & System Performance tuning and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Define and refine agile stories and task, delegate to team, conduct code reviews pull requests.
• Coordinately closely with the QA team and the scrum master to optimize team velocity and task flow.
• Helps establish and maintain technical standards via code reviews and pull requests

• 10 - 15 years of IT experience in application development and support.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience.
• Expert in modern Python 3.10+ (minimum 5 years dedicated, recent Python experience).
• AWS services experience including API Gateway, ECS Containerization technology, DynamoDB, S3, Distributed streaming platform, SQS.
• SQL database experience including proficiency on Postgres.
• Python libraries experience including Pandas, Numpy, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy.
• Demonstrated experience at creating RESTful endpoints in Python (Flask, FastAPI, Sanic).
• JavaScript and UI development experience including one of the following: (Vue 3, React, Angular)
• REST API testing experience with Postman or Bruno.
• Strong CI/CD build process experience using Jenkins.
• Backend services development including distributed libraries and packages in Python.
• Experience with software testing (unit testing, integration testing, test driven development).
• Strong Work Ethic, Communication and Thoughtfulness

• Good understanding of financial markets and investing (stocks, funds, indices, etc.)
• Experience working in mission-critical enterprise organizations
• A passion for creating high quality code and broad unit test coverage.
• Ability to understand complex business problems, break into smaller executable parts, and delegate.