Company Overview

Our client is a leading software-as-a-service fintech company.

About the Role:

As a key member of a small engineering team, you will participate in a cloud migration strategy to include re-platforming of legacy assets, creation of horizontal and vertical scale technologies, and maturation of machine learning libraries.

Responsibilities:

• Perform all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing
• Design and implement performance and operational enhancements
• Design and develop reusable components, patterns, and frameworks
• Enable team velocity through innovation
• Design, code, test, debug and document software while enhancing existing components to ensure security and business requirements are met
• Review code and provide feedback in line with best practices and performance improvement
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure that developed code meets development best practices for unit testing, security, and scalability
• Participate in Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases
• Troubleshoot production support issues after deployment and design solutions as required
• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software
• Collaborate on all design aspects with other team members, product owners and stakeholders, both inside and outside of the scrum team
• Upgrade, maintain, troubleshoot, build enhancements to, and document software and related systems

Requirements:

• Extensive knowledge of software development and its technologies
• Strong knowledge of Python, JavaScript, PHP, and NodeJS
• Strong knowledge of user interfaces, web frameworks, API creation, and integration
• Experience working with React for front-end development
• Experience using modern software engineering and product development tools / techniques including Agile Scrum, Continuous integration and delivery, DevOps, etc.
• Experience with REST/JSON API’s, Microservices, SQL, No-SQL Data Stores, Docker / Kubernetes / Kafka / Apache Storm
• Experienced in working with relational databases (PostgreSQL is preferred), NOSQL (CosmoDB, Mongo, Elasticsearch) or hybrid datastores
• Experience working with Public Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, etc.)
• Experience developing applications on Linux environments
• Working knowledge in API management and related activities
• Track record of driving new technology and innovation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experienced automation frameworks such as Selenium, Scrapy, Beautiful Soup, and Spock
• Knowledge or strongly interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP) libraries integration - spaCy, NLTK, TensorFlow, Word2vec and related tools
• Experience with multiprocessing and/or multithreading to speed-up data processing and efficiently use hardware resources
• Experience or reasonably interested in Rule Based Engines, Knowledge Engines and/or Business Rules Engines
• Experience / Exposure to API integration framework
• Excellent time management, communication and decision making
• Interested in data science, artificial intelligence techniques, machine learning and analytics
• Not required but a plus: Banking / Credit Unions / Collection Industry / Auto Finance Industry experience
• Intellectual Curiosity