Position: Senior Big Data Developer with Python
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

The Succesful candidate will join MyAnalytics Platform and help with green field development of set of Python libraries and frameworks to offer Python as a first class programming language on MyAnalytic Platform.

The highly agile tech team designing, developing, and operating new high-performance cloud-native pricing and analytics platform powering primary sales, structuring, secondary market making, and execution of equity derivatives to facilitate cost efficient scale-up of structured products business across CH (Zurich), UK (London), US (New York). On a daily basis, work requires strong sense of ownership and close collaboration with trading floor quants, structuring, trading that can be defined as QuantDevOps engineering culture required to meet fast paced business opportunities and resulting tech requirements. Specifically prospective candidate will start from taking end-to-end tech ownership of strategic cross-regional cloud Platform allowing business users to evaluate and implement new concepts & workflows without involvement of software developers.
Responsibilities:
The role will involve close collaboration with Python users/developers i.e. Quant Developers. So the candidate will have opportunity to talk to business directly in order to gather requirements, use cases, user stories and shape the Python offering being used by Quant Developers (100+ expected)
• Responsible for overall technology direction for the assigned module/project
• Designs, develops and modifies code based on functional and system requirements
• Ensure that architectural designs are future-proofed from a scale, load, and performance perspective
• Design and implementation of data processing systems and software
• Integration of existing databases in processing pipeline
• Implementation of low-latency and highly available APIs
• Perform development tool and environment design and configuration
• Support bug fixes, change requests and functional enhancement on the code
• Validates scope, plans and deliverables for assigned projects
• Interacts with Design team and Test team for requirements and defects
• Write reusable, testable and efficient code
• Participate in testing process through unit and functional testing
Mandatory Skills Description:
A seasoned Python developer with passion for software engineering and solid experience with large scale business critical Python computational and data analytics setups
- e.g. Spark, Flink, Big Data,
- 5-6 experience in a similar role, more for Architect position
- good communication skills, able communicator and a team player.
• Clear written communication skills when documenting processes and features and communicating via e-mail
Nice-to-Have Skills:
TBC
Languages:
English: B2 Upper Intermediate