Senior Lead Development Engineer - Python Full Stack

Job Description

S&P Dow Jones Indices a global leader in providing investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets, is looking for a Senior Lead Development Engineer with full stack experience to join our technology team. As full stack engineer role, both front-end and back-end skills will be utilized.

The Team:

• You will be part of global technology team comprising of Dev, QA and BA teams and will be responsible for analysis, design, development and testing.

Responsibilities and Impact:

• You will be working on one of the key systems that is responsible for calculating re-balancing weights and asset selections for S&P indices. Ultimately, the output of this team is used to maintain some of the most recognized and important investable assets globally.
• Design and development of RESTful web services and with closely with UI developers
• Interfacing with various AWS infrastructure and services, deploying to Docker environment.
• Coding, Documentation, Testing, Debugging, Documentation and tier-3 support.
• Taking ownership of code modules and leading code review processes.
• Work directly with stakeholders and technical architect to formalize/document requirements for both supporting existing application as well as new initiatives.
• Perform Application & System Performance tuning and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Define and refine agile stories and task, delegate to team, conduct code reviews / pull requests.
• Coordinately closely with the QA team and the scrum master to optimize team velocity and task flow.
• Helps establish and maintain technical standards via code reviews and pull requests

Whats in it for you:

• This is an opportunity to work on a team of highly talented and motivated engineers at a highly respected company. You will work on new development as well as enhancements to existing functionality. You will use your full range of skills as a full stack developer.

What Were Looking For:

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 - 15 years of IT experience in application development and support.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience.
• Expert in modern Python 3.10+ (minimum 5 years dedicated, recent Python experience).
• AWS services experience including API Gateway, ECS / Docker, DynamoDB, S3, Kafka, SQS.
• SQL database experience including proficiency on Postgres.
• Python libraries experience including Pandas, Numpy, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy.
• Demonstrated experience at creating RESTful endpoints in Python (Flask, FastAPI, Sanic).
• JavaScript and UI development experience including one of the following: (Vue 3, React, Angular)
• REST API testing experience with Postman or Bruno.
• Strong CI/CD build process experience using Jenkins.
• Backend services development including distributed libraries and packages in Python.
• Experience with software testing (unit testing, integration testing, test driven development).
• Strong Work Ethic, Communication and Thoughtfulness

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Good understanding of financial markets and investing (stocks, funds, indices, etc.)
• Experience working in mission-critical enterprise organizations
• A passion for creating high quality code and broad unit test coverage.
• Ability to understand complex business problems, break into smaller executable parts, and delegate.