Position: Middle Python Engineer (for Data Engineering team)
Company: Newfire Global Partners
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**You Perfectly Match If you have: **
- 3+ years of professional coding experience using Python
- Strong coding and refactoring skills
- Experienced in building scalable systems
- Proactive problem-solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to efficiently work across the organization.
- At least Upper-Intermediate spoken and written English.
- Experience in working with Scrum / Agile Teams

**Nice to have:**
- Experience with usage and configuration of AWS Services (Elasticsearch, RDS, Athena, S3, EC2, Lambda, ECS,  CloudWatch)
- Experience Docker and JupyterHub or Google Colab
- Experienced working with SQL, and NoSQL databases
- Understanding principles of tools like Spotfire, Tableau, Jupyter notebook 
- Understanding of BigData principles
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering,  Chemistry, Biology, Public Health, etc.) or a combination of education and related experience
 
**Your day-to-day activities: **
- Implement data acquisition strategies for scientific lab instrumentation
- Implement file parsers for instrument output files (.xlsx, .pdf, .txt, .raw, .fid, many other vendor binaries and data streams)
- Update data models
- Update Python data pipelines, unit tests, integration tests, and utility functions
- Ensure the best practices in code development are followed, help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization 
- Collaborate with the team to identify and clarify detailed requirements
Identify and resolve bottlenecks and bugs.
- Support Scrum / Agile software development approach (e.g., sprint, standups, retros, planning, pointing, grooming, etc.)

**About the project**

The client provides the world’s first and only R&D Data Cloud in Pharmaceutical and BioMed domains, with a mission to transform life sciences R&D, accelerate discovery, and improve human life. Scientists at global pharma and biotech organizations rely on client’s innovative Data Platform for easy access to centralized, harmonized, and actionable scientific data to accelerate their digital lab transformation. Our client is positioned to become an iconic life sciences software company with best-in-class PaaS performance, a team of industry innovators, and excellent product/market fit.