Junior Python Engineer - Real-Time Risk Scoring (Remote)

Hidden Jobs; United States; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support to hubs in Cyprus,

Flexible work from offices or remote

Healthcare coverage

Education budget for languages andcert

Wellness budget for mental health and

20 days annual leave + paid sick leave

Job summary

Hidden Jobs is seeking a Junior+ Python engineer to help implement scoring features and policy rules for real-time credit decisions across multiple products. You will contribute to a high-load Python service and collaborate with an international team to ensure robust data contracts and production readiness.

The role emphasizes test coverage, incident response, and maintaining production-grade quality through careful validation and logging.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of Python experience, internships, projects, or commercial work.
• Solid Python fundamentals: OOP, dataclasses, typing, and static type checking.
• Basic experience with pydantic for model declaration and data validation.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts.
• Practical pytest experience covering unit and integration tests, parametrized cases, and mocking.
• Comfortable with Git and team-based branch or merge request workflows, plus basic SQL.
• B1 or higher English for working with an international team.

Responsibilities

• Implement scoring features, policy rules, and strategies that drive real-time client decisions in production.
• Maintain and extend an existing high-load Python service and its data contracts.
• Ensure quality through test coverage and validation against production traffic before release.
• Respond rapidly to incidents by tracing decisions through logs and restoring correct behaviour.

Skills

Python

OOP

Dataclasses

Type hints

Static typing

Pydantic

Docker

Pytest

Git

SQL

English

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

gRPC

Protobuf

GitLab CI

Job description

Hidden Jobs is seeking a Junior+ Python engineer to help implement scoring features and policy rules for real-time credit decisions across multiple products. You will contribute to a high-load Python service and collaborate with an international team to ensure robust data contracts and production readiness.

The role emphasizes test coverage, incident response, and maintaining production-grade quality through careful validation and logging.