Senior Python Engineer Financial & Scientific ModelS

Job Description – Senior Python Engineer Financial & Scientific Models We do want someone who is not only Python developer but has data science expertise in financial / scientific models Top 5 Technical

Skills:

Take a lead role in organizing and applying software engineering standards to the existing modeling codebase, re-writing it to make it more robust, maintainable, and extensible

Work with the data scientists and computational engineers to understand the existing Python financial and scientific models, refactoring prototype models into production-quality code

Architect code changes to improve performance, maintainability, or extensibility as needed

Work with the team to establish software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews and other standard techniques

Work with the data team to improve data interfaces between the models and the data layer

Bachelor s degree in computer science, engineering, quantitative sciences, or mathematics; alternatively significant practical software project experience

5 years of meaningful Python project experience, with code complex enough to require modular or object-oriented Python code

Proficient with pandas and numpy libraries; capable of optimizing performance of code that uses them

Experience integrating testing frameworks (e.g. pytest), writing unit tests, and organizing CI/CD pipelines for Python code

Good technical communication and collaboration skills; experience working in Agile teams

Experience writing financial models in Python

Experience using Databricks or Palantir

Experience with writing Spark code in Python or with other parallelization techniques and distributed computing frameworks