Position: senior python Engineer
Company: Svitla
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior Python Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine. Our client is a leading Belgian company in semantic technologies with an innovative solution to improve information management. They create and implement pioneering semantic search technology for information management. The client’s award-winning self-service knowledge discovery platform builds intelligent links between private, third-party, and public data sources, democratizing access to all your data. The platform turns data into intelligent and actionable data. Their customers are research-intensive organizations in life sciences, healthcare, and beyond. The client works with non-profit organizations, from pharmaceutical multinationals, small-to-medium biotech companies, academic institutes, hospitals, and patient organizations. The focus is on life sciences and healthcare, but we have innovative projects to engage in other industries like clean-tech, finance, telecom, etc. The leading technologies you will be working on within this role are Python, AWS, Redis, Solr, Flask, PostgreSQL. To build the functionality, you will have to solve the complex problem, and you will expose this functionality optimized for the client’s APIs and the user interfaces. Together with your Scrum team, you will build the product that enables the users to process and extract insights out of a complex knowledge graph of terabytes of data in a user-friendly and performant way.
Requirements:
5+years of equivalent experience.
Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Informatics (or equal through a proven track record).
Familiarity with industry-standard code principles like Clean Code and Clean Architecture, and you have a solid grasp of standard software engineering practices, like OO principles, modern design patterns, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
Proficiency in Python and you love to think up and design algorithms.
Expertise in REST APIs.
Familiarity with technologies like Python, C++, Bash, Docker, Jenkins, Solr, graph databases, Redis, AI, AWS.
Testing is not an afterthought for you. For you, relying on automated tests is essential to the quality, time to market, and confidence in your code.
Security is paramount for you. You always write code protected from cross-site scripting, injection attacks, and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Performance is crucial for you. You realize the impact that a slow performance has on your user experience, and you will design and architect for optimal performance. 
Good English is necessary.
Will be a plus:
Knowledge of microservice architecture and/or machine learning.
Responsibilities:
Take challenging business problems and come up with and build effective, performant, user-friendly solutions for these challenges.
Together with your Scrum team, develop new functionality features autonomously and iteratively end-to-end: from design to developing and testing your features.
Own what you or your teammates write. It means also reviewing pull requests, ensuring shared knowledge, writing maintainable code, coaching and guiding less experienced members.
Innovate in the client’s technologies, product, and way of working.
 

We Offer:
Competitive compensation plan that takes skills and experience into consideration.
Annual performance appraisals.
Possibility to choose your workspace either remote or combination of your home and one of our development offices. 
Projects that use advanced, cutting-edge technologies.
Competitive bonuses for a personal recommendation of new employees.
Vacation time, sick-leaves, national holidays, family supplementary days off.
Comprehensive medical insurance including dental services, massages.
Support for a healthy lifestyle, compensation of sports events.
Maternity leave policy.
A personal loan budget is available for long-term personnel.
Partial compensation of conferences, courses, and English classes.
Free meetups, webinars, and conferences organized by Svitla.
Birthday and New Year presents for personnel, gifts for children.
Fun summer and winter corporate parties and memorable anniversary presents.
About Svitla:
Svitla Systems is a multinational software development company headquartered in Silicon Valley, with business and development offices throughout the US, Mexico, and Europe (Ukraine, Poland, Western Europe). Svitla is an outspoken advocate of workplace flexibility, best known for its well-established remote culture, individual approach to our teammate’s professional and personal growth, and family-like environment.

Since 2003, Svitla has served a wide range of clients, from innovative start-ups in California to mega-large corporations such as Ingenico, AstraZeneca, and Ancestry. At Svitla, developers work with clients’ teams directly, building lasting and successful partnerships, as a result of seamless integration with on-site processes. 

Svitla Systems’ global mission is to build a business that contributes to the well-being of our partners, personnel and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world. Join us!

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