Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Toronto, Canada (5 Days Onsite)
Notes: Software Engineer role focused on Python and building web APIs
(must be good in python coding)
Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building highly scalable solutions based on a microservices architecture.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working with a highly skilled cross functional team to enhance our banking platform.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements.
- Create technical design specifications in collaboration with other members of the engineering team.
- Provide estimates and actively participate in the sprint planning process.
- Produce highly secure solutions.
- Tune the performance of our distributed system to ensure they operate within our SLAs.
- Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers.
Qualifications and Skills
- Experience with cloud computing and container-based distributed systems (Docker).
- Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL) and high proficiency with SQL.
- Understanding of higher-level RDBMS concepts (locking and transaction model, isolation levels, deadlocks, etc.).
- Significant experience with at least one dynamically typed, object-oriented programming. language (preference for Python).
- Great understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
- Hands-on experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ.
- Deep understanding of restful API development.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast pace customer centric environment.
- 7+ years of experience in software development.
- Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.
- Familiar with *nix like environments.