Position: Senior Python Developer
Company: Luxoft
Category: Python
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

As a Python Engineer in our team, you will be responsible for building data pipelines and integrating them with various internal or external systems, contributing to architectural decisions, understanding engineering processes as a whole- including contribution to monitoring application health, infrastructure set-up, CI/CD, etc. The Transaction Monitoring platform will be looking at running various models at scale on large data sets to identify possible instances of market abuse in the market.
Responsibilities:
• Developing a data-centric application, hosting many data pipelines and algorithms to detect possible market abuse
• Designing the architecture for a system allowing hosting and scheduling of inter-dependent data-centric pipelines and services.
• Building out additional ETL layers to support the ingestion of additional data sources
• Working closely with quants/data scientists to understand requirements needed to add new algorithms, and onboarding the data sources including quality checks and timeliness
• Building a close relationship with clients and stakeholders to understand the use case for the platform and prioritise work accordingly
• Working well in a multidisciplinary team, building a close relationship with other developers, Quants/Data Scientists, and production support teams
Mandatory Skills Description:
• You have extensive experience designing and implementing python-based backend services
• You have experience building data pipelines on top of Big Data technologies, ideally using Spark and Python
• You have experience working with message queues (ideally Kafka or Solace)
• You are passionate about databases and worked in the past with SQL\NoSQL technologies (SQL Server, Oracle, Couchbase, Mongo DB, etc.)
• You have worked closely with data scientists before, and may have experience creating pipelines that can serve ML/statistical algorithms
• You have experience working in a DevOps culture and willing to drive it. You are comfortable working with CI/CD tools (ideally IBM UrbanCode Deploy, TeamCity or Jenkins), monitoring tools and log aggregation tools. Ideally, you would have worked with Docker/Kubernetes.
• You have high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration and deployment
• You have proven capability to interact with clients and deliver results, taking ideas to production
• You have experience working in fast paced development environments
• You agree that verbal and written communication skills are vital
Nice-to-Have Skills:-
Languages:
English: B2 Upper Intermediate