Python Software Engineer

Join us as a Python Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

To take on this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. You'll need at least 5 years of experience in Python or PySpark development preferably with Data and Machine Learning background. You'll also need experience in Agile, Test Driven Development approach and software delivery best practices. Knowledge of AWS environment will be highly desired.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of working with Unix or Linux scripting
• Experience of writing Advance Spark SQL or ANSI SQL with query optimization and performance tuning
• Experience of Continuous Integration, DevOps, GIT, Artifactory with Airflow
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance

Hours

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