Senior Full-stack Python Engineer with React
We are seeking a skilled Senior Python Engineer with experience in AWS and React to join a project for our Client, a global leader in the area of investments.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and enhance backend services using Python frameworks (FastAPI, Django), PostgreSQL, and Docker
- Build and optimize frontend applications with React.js and TypeScript, ensuring seamless user experiences
- Champion test automation practices, implementing robust unit tests and manual integration testing to ensure code quality and reliability
- Collaborate within agile teams to deliver complex, high-stakes applications, contributing to iterative development and continuous improvement
- Participate actively in code reviews, fostering a culture of peer learning and knowledge sharing
- Work effectively with distributed teams across multiple time zones, ensuring clear communication and collaboration
- Utilize Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.) for project tracking, documentation, and workflow management
- Integrate and manage native cloud services such as S3 buckets, Lambda, AWS AKS, CloudWatch to support scalable and resilient architectures
- Lead system design efforts, including microservices architecture, database modelling, and API design, to meet business and technical requirements
- Drive refactoring and redesign initiatives for critical financial systems, ensuring performance, maintainability, and scalability
- Architect solutions for resiliency, compliance, and auditability, specifically within Treasury and payment platforms
Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience with Python (FastAPI, Django), PostgreSQL, Docker
- 5+ years’ experience with React.js, TypeScript
- Strong commitment to test automation, including robust unit and manual integration testing
- Experience working in agile teams on complex, high-stakes applications
- Collaborative mindset, with a commitment to code reviews and peer learning
- Comfortable working with teams across the globe
- Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
- Familiarity with native cloud services (S3 buckets, Lambda, AWS AKS, CloudWatch)
- System design expertise across microservices, database modeling, and API design
- Experience leading refactoring/redesign initiatives on critical financial systems
- Ability to architect for resiliency, compliance, and auditability in Treasury/payment platforms
Nice to have
- Experience with GitHub Actions, Jira - GitHub integrations, DevOps best practices
- Prior exposure to financial services, with domain knowledge in payments, wire transfers, account reconciliations, and cash management
