Python Job: Senior Software Developer

Description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Python Developer to join our team full-time in Argentina.

We are a leading global product engineering and digital services company that unites 4000+ seasoned professionals globally on various projects in healthcare, fintech, travel, sportswear, entertainment, and security. Ciklum delivers high-impact technology solutions to Fortune 500 and fast-growing organisations worldwide.

About the role:

As a Senior Python Developer, become a part of a cross-functional development team working for Our Client.

Responsibilities

• Back-end development to meet customer’s business needs and implement components according to modern software development environment (cloud-based platforms, microservice architecture, etc.)
• Taking part in the decision-making process in design application architecture, solution development, architecture and code review
• Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/update to specifications for the solution
• Design and implement a set of various types of tests (unit, integration, functional, etc)
• Proactive position in solution development, processes improvements
• Working in an international distributed team in an Agile environment
• Communicate with PMs, engineers, Architects, QA and other colleagues and stakeholders
• Delivering the product roadmap and plannings
• To use high coding standards, software best practices and write highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC

Requirements

• Experience in software development for more than 5 years
• Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:
  • Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID, DDD, TDD, BDD)
  • Database theory (RDBMS, NoSQL)
  • Code testing practices
  • Algorithms
  • Data structures
  • Architectural, Enterprise and Design Patterns
• Understanding of network interactions:
  • protocols
  • conventions (e.g. REST, RPC)
  • authentication and authorization flows
  • standards and practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)
• Excellent knowledge and experience in Python (more than 3 years)
  • Strong Multiprocessing, Threading and AIO knowledge
  • Low-level network knowing (e.g. socket, TCP / UDP)
• Practical commercial experience with:
  • Web application frameworks (e.g. Flask, Falcon, Django, aiohttp) (more than 3 year)
  • Testing frameworks (e.g. pyTest, unittest) (more than 2 years)
  • ORM (e.g. SQLAlchemy) (more than 2 year)
  • RDBMS (e.g PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MS SQL) (more than 2 year)
  • Key-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)
  • Messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Active MQ, AWS SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub)
  • Web Servers
  • Version control systems (GIT)
  • Cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)
  • Integration with 3rd party solutions
  • Docker
  • Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
  • Builders
• Experience with:
  • Troubleshooting, profiling and debugging applications
  • Creation software architecture and design of complex applications, platforms, microservices solutions
  • Agile software processes and technologies
  • Code Review process
  • Refactoring process
• Fluent or Upper-Intermediate English

Desirable

• Certifications on:
  • Python
  • Cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure at least one)
• Ability to lead feature development, take full ownership of tasks from A-Z and deliver independently with minimum supervision
• Understanding of orchestration and containerisation (e.g. Kubernetes, Swarm)
• Knowledge in Deployment patterns
• Practical commercial experience with:
  • Serverless architecture
  • NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB)
  • Experience with Search Engines (e.g. ElasticSearch, Azure Search, Apache Solr)
  • Provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
  • Quality tools (e.g. SonarQube)

Personal skills

• Collaborative, willing to help, talkative, able to clearly express and discuss ideas
• Curious mind and willingness to work with client in consultative manner to find areas to improve
• Upper-Intermediate or Advanced English
• Good analytical skills
• Good team player, motivated to develop and solve complex tasks
• Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
• Strong attention to details and accuracy

What's in it for you

• Career growth opportunities
• Realization of your innovative ideas in building new Ciklum Solutions and Services
• Friendly collaborative teams and enjoyable working environment
• Professional skills development and training programs
• Variety of knowledge sharing, training, and self-development opportunities