Python Developer III

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Python Developer to design, develop, enhance, and support business-critical applications and services built on the Quartz and legacy Python platform. The role involves developing Python-based applications, automation frameworks, APIs, data-processing solutions, and scheduled workflows that support trading, risk, operations, reporting, and analytics functions. The successful candidate will partner closely with business users, architects, operations teams, and fellow developers to deliver scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions while contributing to platform modernization initiatives and cloud-native adoption efforts.

Responsibilities

• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Design, develop, and modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Mentor other software engineers and coach the team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
• Execute story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
• Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Automate manual release activities
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)
• Design, develop, test, and support Python applications running on the Quartz platform

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong proficiency in Python development
• Experience developing enterprise applications on Quartz or similar distributed computing platforms (Athena or SecDB)
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design and software engineering principles
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL
• Experience developing RESTful APIs and service-oriented architectures
• Familiarity with Linux environments and command-line tools
• Experience with Git-based source control and CI/CD practices
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
• Experience in financial services, commodities markets, trading, or risk (desired)
• Knowledge of Quartz services, job scheduling, orchestration, and distributed computing concepts (desired)
• Familiarity with messaging systems, event-driven architectures, and workflow automation (desired)
• Experience with data processing frameworks and large-scale datasets (desired)
• Experience supporting production applications with strict availability requirements (desired)

Skills

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

Schedule

1st shift (United States of America), 40 hours per week