Senior Python Developer

at  Morgan McKinley

THE TEAM

The Risk & Finance Technology team build enterprise scale solutions supporting the Risk and Finance divisions. They collaborate globally, driving some of the most critical technology projects in the bank. In an agile fashion, they are always striving to improve thier processes, leverage a wide range of technologies and place a big emphasis on researching new approaches and technologies. It is a growing team, and are looking for people that are proactive, intellectually curious, and enjoy problem solving.

THE REQUIREMENTS

• Strong proficiently in Python programming language, including its syntax, data structures, and object-oriented concepts.
• Experience with Python frameworks (SQLAlchemy, Django, Flask, Bottle)
• Familiarity with testing framework for Python Application such as Selenium or Pytest.
• Knowledge of React.
• Familiarity in Integrating services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)) and REST API
• Good relational database/SQL experience e.g., PostgreSQL and MySQL or SQL Server
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible
• Knowledge of JavaScript
• Solid Linux/UNIX experience
• Building and deploying Microservices in Python
  Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

THE ROLE

Looking for a Senior Python Developer to work on the Risk & Finance Technology team. You will be responsible for developing and delivering software to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the role will include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional and non-functional requirements. You will refine stories, code solutions, build unit tests and ensure that solutions can be integrated successfully into the overall application.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build efficient back-end features in Python.
• Collaborating with cross-functionals teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Writing clean, efficient and reusable code following coding standard and best practices
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design into the code.
• Implement software enhancements and suggest improvements.
• Coach junior team members
• Optimising Application performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks and implementing efficient algorithms.