Sr. Backend Developer - Python

Role: Senior Backend Developer - Python

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)

Experience: 4-7years

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Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building highly scalable

solutions based on a microservices architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will

be working with a highly skilled cross-functional team to enhance our core banking

platform.

Responsibilities and Duties

● Design and deliver high-quality features and enhancements.

● Own the end-to-end delivery of large features within your team that could span 3+ months.

● Create technical design specifications in collaboration with other members of the engineering team.

● Provide estimates and actively participate in the sprint planning process.

● Produce highly secure solutions.

● Tune the performance of our distributed systems to ensure they operate within our SLAs.

● Peer review other engineers’ code.

● Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers.

Qualifications and Skills

● Experience in system design, ability to articulate a good solution and a system that will scale and respond well to system failures and unexpected issues with downstream dependencies.

● Experience with cloud computing and container-based distributed systems (Docker).

● Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL) and high proficiency with SQL.

● Understanding of RDBMS concepts (locking and transaction model, isolation levels, deadlocks, etc.).

● Significant experience with at least one dynamically typed, object-oriented programming language ( preference for Python).

● Great understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.

● Hands-on experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ.

● Deep understanding of restful API development.

● Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, customer-centric environment.

● 5+ years of experience in software development.

● Excellent communication and organization skills.

● Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.

● Familiar with *nix like environments.

● Build and integration experience with Payroll Providers and Time & Attendance platforms is highly desirable.