Senior Back End Developer

Summary

Join Truelogic, a leading provider of nearshore staff augmentation services, and contribute to innovative products impacting millions of users. You will work in a forward-thinking environment at a specialty financial services firm, providing strategic guidance, designs, and solution patterns to team members. This role involves collaborating throughout the development lifecycle, optimizing requirements, and validating functionality. You will ensure design feasibility and integration with existing systems. The position requires extensive Python and AWS experience, along with strong knowledge of modern web frameworks and agile methodologies. Success in this role depends on your technical leadership, ability to work independently and collaboratively, and alignment with the company's culture.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Provide 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
• Work with developers to review and validate key functionality and integration
• Ensure feasibility of design and integration with existing systems/platforms
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to more junior engineers
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services and, if possible, mortgage industry experience preferred
• Strong business acumen and ability to interface with executive management
• Experience utilizing at least one other modern language in a production application (Typescript strongly preferred)
• 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 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
• Self Starter (Able to to work alone with minimal direction but also able to work within the team.)