Senior Back End Developer (Python - Serverless) - Finance (ID: 2295)

Truelogic is a leading provider of nearshore staff augmentation services, located in New York. Our team of 500 tech talents is driving digital disruption from Latin America to the top projects in U.S. companies. Truelogic has been helping companies of all sizes to achieve their digital transformation goals.

Would you like to make innovation happen? Have you ever dreamed of building Products that impact millions of users? Nice! Then we have a seat for you on our team!

What are you going to do?

You will have the opportunity to work in a forward-thinking and growth-oriented environment, at a specialty financial services firm with a comprehensive mortgage platform and an integrated business focused on the production and servicing of U.S. mortgage loans and the management of investments related to the U.S. mortgage market.

Occupy a unique position in the market, being responsible for providing strategic guidance, designs, and solution patterns to team members. Serve as a driver and collaborator throughout development life cycle, partnering with business analysts and customers to review and optimize requirements; and, work with developers to review and validate key functionality and integration. Responsible for ensuring feasibility of design and integration with existing systems/platforms.

What will help you succeed

Extensive experience working with python and modern web frameworks
Experience with AWS Serverless
Experience with queueing systems (Celery, SQS, Pub/Sub, etc)
Expert level knowledge of Python 3, Object-Oriented Code & Design Patterns
Strong Experience with Python frameworks (e.g. Fast API, Flask, Django)
Strong Experience with REST APIs
Strong Experience with Git
Strong Experience Writing Unit Tests
Experience utilizing at least one other modern language in a production application (Typescript strongly preferred)
Experience with Event Driven Systems & Microservices
Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and serverless
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Cloudformation & CDK)
Knowledge of Databases (SQL, NoSQL)
Knowledge of DevOps Practices (CI/CD, Automated Pipelines)
Experience with Agile, Scrum, Jira
Attention to Detail
Provide technical leadership and guidance to more junior engineers
Self Starter (Able to to work alone with minimal direction but also able to work within the team.)
Capable of owning technical design for projects of moderate complexity, and understands the tradeoffs in creating good software
Ability to understand the capabilities and limitation of existing software and demonstrate a preference to extend, re-use and integrate with them effectively while also improving them
Demonstrated track record of making reasonable design tradeoffs between short term results and building for the long term
Demonstrated ability to understand and actively participate in team's scrum activities and rituals as well as help others to understand and embrace them
Demonstrates behaviors which are aligned with the organization’s desired culture and values

Required qualifications:

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar major
5 years of experience with software development
Deep understanding of and experience with modern python (3.x)
Demonstrated ability to master at least one major skill outside of core coding such as monitoring, documentation, security, integration testing, visual design, devOps, performance optimization
Demonstrated track record of creating significant improvements across business-critical product ecosystems around stability, security, performance, and scalability
Demonstrated ability to understand, facilitate or actively participate in multi team or multi subproduct scrum activities and rituals, help others to understand them
Demonstrated ability to effectively convey complex technical topics in ways that that could be easily understood by engineers, POs, PMs or nontechnical colleagues
Able to collaborate across teams and build systems to address architectural gaps
Capable of leading small to mid-size epic level efforts
Financial Services and, if possible, mortgage industry experience preferred
Strong business acumen and ability to interface with executive management