Python Developer

An excellent opportunity has arisen within a specialist consultancy we work closely with, currently looking for a Python Software Engineer to join their existing team. They provide consultancy purely within the financial services sector and would ideally want someone who comes from a background within finance, although they are open for candidates who also hold other sector experience. Being a consultancy, they need someone who has strong stakeholder management, with excellent communication skills, who enjoys working across a range of exciting projects.

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Candidate skills and experience:

• Hands-on Expertise in Python

• Pytest

• PIP

• Conda

• Docker / Docker Compose

• Python best practices

• Build experience

• Monorepo principles

• Test/QA experience

• Bash scrip

• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms

• Experience in architecting/designing large-scale business critical systems.

• Object oriented design and usage of commonly used design patterns.

• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix along with scripting skills

• Comfort in relational database modelling and querying

• Ability and interest to understand the domain and its data.

• Agile Development Experience

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Nice to have:

• Financial (any of: risk /front office, derivatives, analytics, finance, market data)

• Spark or Symphony Grid

• Full stack developer

• Large scale Database (GreenPlum, Cassandra, Snowflake)

• KDB

• Java/Scala experience

• Mongo

• Cloud Technologies

• Automated testing

• AWS/ Azure /Snowflake

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Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 Per annum