Python Backend Engineer

Synstack Technologies; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company in Toronto is seeking a Mid-Senior level Back End Developer. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Python and system design, responsible for delivering high-quality features and mentoring junior engineers. Strong SQL expertise and experience with Docker are preferred. The position is full-time and offers a salary range of CA$55.00-CA$60.00 per hour.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• Significant experience with object-oriented programming, preferably Python.
• Excellent communication and organization skills.

Responsibilities

• 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 the engineering team.

Skills

System design

Python

SQL

Cloud computing

Docker

Machine messaging systems

Restful API development

Fast-paced customer-centric work

Code repositories (e.g., GitHub)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

MySQL

RabbitMQ

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Synstack Technologies

Must have for this role :

• Experience in system design / System Architecture must
• Expertise in Python- Must
• Experience in SQL- Must
• Any message broker (rabbitMQ or other alternatives) – Nice to have :
• Need development experience with strong coding :

Responsibilities and Duties

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.

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.

8+ years of experience in software development.

Excellent communication and organization skills.

Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.

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.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Design and Information Technology

Industries

Financial Services and Banking

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