Python Developer

We are a digital-first technology services firm backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital. We specialize in accelerating business transformation and delivering human-centric digital experiences. For over 28 years, Apexon has been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation.

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.

• 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 system 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.

• 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 Rabbit
  
  MQ.
• Deep understanding of restful API development
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• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast pace customer centric environment.
• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Excellent communication and organization skills.
• Proven experience using code repositories such as Git Hub
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• 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.