Python Full Stack Engineer- AVP

Deutsche Bank AG; Boveney; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the United Kingdom is looking for a Senior Developer to design and develop server-side solutions. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in Python, RESTful services, and modern libraries such as PySpark. The role includes collaborating with teams, ensuring code quality, and contributing to architectural decisions. The position promotes a diverse and inclusive culture, offering competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

Benefits

Gender neutral parental leaves

Childcare assistance benefit

Sponsorship for certifications

Employee Assistance Program

Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance

Accident and Term life Insurance

Complementary Health screening

Qualifications

• Senior developer skills utilizing Python fundamentals.
• Extensive experience developing RESTful services using Flask or Django.
• Experience creating and manipulating data on a Hadoop environment.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a delivery team to capture requirements and design solutions.
• Write excellent server-side code and ensure it meets user needs.
• Define and evolve the architecture of components being developed.

Skills

Python fundamentals

RESTful services with Flask or Django

Modern Python libraries

Container technologies

Data analysis with SQL

Agile methodologies

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Hadoop

Job description

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a delivery team, collaborating with others to understand and capture requirements, analyze and refine stories, design solutions, implement them, test them and support them in production.
• Design and develop excellent and understandable server-side code. Work closely with users to gain feedback and ensure they are fit for purpose.
• Use BDD techniques, collaborating closely with users, analysts, developers and other testers. Make sure we are building the right thing.
• Write code and write it well. Be proud to call yourself a programmer. Use test-driven development, write clean code and refactor constantly. Make sure we are building the thing right.
• Define and evolve the architecture of the components you are working on. Contribute to architectural decisions at a department and bank-wide level.
• Ensure that the software you build is reliable and easy to support in production. Be prepared to take your turn on call providing 3rd line support when it is needed.
• Help your team build, test and release software with the short lead times and a minimum of waste. Work to develop and maintain a highly automated Continuous Delivery pipeline.
• Help create a culture of learning and continuous improvement within your team and beyond.

Qualifications

• Senior developer skills utilizing Python fundamentals.
• Extensive experience developing RESTful services using Flask or Django.
• Extensive experience with modern Python libraries, including PySpark, Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, etc.
• Good experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes or Docker.
• Background in designing and developing high-quality server side processing in Python.
• Good experience creating and manipulating data on a Hadoop environment using HDFS.
• Experience working with very large datasets using Big Data technologies such as Spark, Impala and Hive.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and advanced data analysis.
• Desire to write robust, maintainable & re-usable code.
• Practical experience of TDD and constant refactoring in a continuous integration environment.
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy).
• Experience working in an agile team, practicing Scrum, Kanban or XP.
• Practical experience delivering good quality code within enterprise scale development (CI/CD).

The ideal candidate will also have:

• An understanding of web fundamentals – extensive understanding of HTML, CSS and Javascript/TypeScript.
• Experience with cloud technologies – Google Cloud, AWS, Azure etc.
• Experience with one of the modern front-end frameworks e.g. React, Angular, Vue.
• Experience in other programming languages, specifically Java / Scala would be helpful.
• Behavior Driven Development, particularly experience of how it can be used to define requirements in a collaborative manner, ensure that the team builds the right thing and create a system of living documentation.
• Knowledge gained in Financial Services environments, for example products, instruments, trade lifecycles, regulation, risk, financial reporting or accounting.

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer. We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation. Visit Inside Deutsche Bank to discover more about the culture of Deutsche Bank including Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Leadership, Learning, Future of Work and more besides.

Benefits

• Gender neutral parental leaves.
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral).
• Sponsorship for industry relevant certifications and education.
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members.
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents.
• Accident and Term life Insurance.
• Complementary Health screening for 35 years and above.