Software Engineer Python

Position: Software Developer (Python)

Office / Station: Product

Duties and Responsibilities

● Contribute to architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architecture

● Write scalable, robust, testable, efficient and easily maintainable code

● Translate software requirements into stable, working, high performance software

● Design and develop advanced applications and intelligent systems

● Do peer review before committing to code repository

● Develop features for the work product

● Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability

● Monitor and maintain (hot fixes) production systems

● Manage staging/test environment and support software testing and quality assurance

● Improve application performance and other non-functional requirements such as reliability

● Deliver technical discussion on the implemented functionalities

● Comply with coding standards that has been set by the organization

● Adapt the SCRUM process in the software development life cycle

● Participate in Sprint planning to assess and clarify the requirements to the product owner

● Update the team on the status of tasks and raise potential blockers (if any) in the daily standup meeting

● Present the completed features in the Sprint review to stakeholders

● Review and evaluate the team’s accomplishments in the Retrospective meeting

● Participate in team development activities (team building, training, etc.)

● Contribute to the success of the team’s objectives

● Perform related duties as assigned

Working Relationships

● Directly reports to the Lead Software Engineer

Working Location

● Taguig City, Philippines

Qualifications

● Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Information Technology / Computer Science / Engineering or other related courses

● At least 3+ years of working experience in software development

● At least 2+ years of working experience as a Python software developer with an excellent track record

● Experience developing with containerization software such as Docker

● Experience in development collaboration tools such as Jira, Git and Confluence

● Experience in development on IDE such as PyCharm and Visual Studio Code

● Hands on experience with AWS technologies and frameworks highly desirable

Having any of the following is an advantage:

● Familiarity with programming languages like Go, C# and Java

● Experience with relational databases such as Postgres and MySQL

● Familiarity with continuous build, integration and deployment using Jenkins and Bamboo

● Experience with systems using gRPC, REST and SOAP backend services

● Strong foundational knowledge of object oriented programming, design patterns and best coding practices

● Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as REDIS and ElasticSearch

● Familiarity with messaging frameworks such as ActiveMQ

Other skills:

● Strong analytical skills

● Excellent problem solving ability

● Would like to work as part of a self-organizing Scrum team in a scaled agile framework

● Resourceful and with a good learning attitude

● Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills

● Team player and communicator who enjoys creative freedom and independence

● Proficient in oral and written English communication

● Excellent human relations and customer service skills

● Fast learner with short learning curve

● Works with minimal supervision