Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Title: Senior Software Engineer Location: Toronto, Canada (5 Days Onsite) Notes: Software Engineer role focused on Python and building web APIs (must be good in python coding) Job Description: 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 banking platform. Responsibilities and Duties • Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements. • 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 system to ensure they operate within our SLAs. • Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers. Qualifications and Skills • Experience with cloud computing and container-based distributed systems (Docker). • Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL) and high proficiency with SQL. • Understanding of higher-level 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 pace customer centric environment. • 7+ years of experience in software development. • Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub. • Familiar with *nix like environments.