Senior Python Engineer — AWS, Pre-Trade (Gas & Power)

Talan; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement plan with company匹配

Paid vacation and holidays

Health, dental, and vision insurance

FSA

Job summary

Talan is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - AWS / Python to design, develop, and support cloud-native applications for a key energy trading client. The role emphasizes secure, scalable data services, with AWS as the primary cloud platform and Python as the main language.

You will build APIs, microservices, and data processing pipelines, while embracing IaC, CI/CD, and security best practices across the stack.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on backend OOP development in event-driven and distributed services.
• 5+ years developing complex Python applications involving APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• 5+ years deploying Python applications in AWS cloud environment (Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache, RDS/Aurora/S3).
• Bachelor degree in Computer science, Engineering, Finance or Quantitative finance.

Responsibilities

• Build and support cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, and event-driven solutions on AWS.
• Develop backend services and automation in Python.
• Design services handling market data, pricing, analytics, and pre-trade workflows.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and observability.
• Apply cloud security and secure software-development best practices.
• Optimize application performance, reliability, scalability, and AWS costs.
• Lead technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture reviews.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

Skills

Python

AWS

Backend development

Event-driven architecture

Microservices

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Redis/ElastiCache

RDS/Aurora/S3

Job description

Talan is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - AWS / Python to design, develop, and support cloud-native applications for a key energy trading client. The role emphasizes secure, scalable data services, with AWS as the primary cloud platform and Python as the main language.

You will build APIs, microservices, and data processing pipelines, while embracing IaC, CI/CD, and security best practices across the stack.