Software Engineer - Python Junior+ [Risks Scoring]

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

Role overview

The Risks Scoring team owns the automated decision-making behind every product of a digital lending company, integrating data from multiple sources and serving real-time credit decisions under strict SLAs across credit cards, cash loans, POS lending, and debit products in several countries. As a Junior+ Python engineer, you will help implement scoring features, policy rules, and strategies while maintaining a high-load Python service.

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 comprehensive test coverage and validation against real production traffic before release.
• Respond rapidly to incidents by tracing decisions through logs and restoring correct behaviour quickly.

Requirements

• 1+ year of Python experience, whether from internships, personal projects, or commercial work.
• Solid Python fundamentals: OOP, dataclasses, the standard library, type hints, 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.l>
• Comfortable with Git and team-based branch or merge request workflows, plus basic SQL.
• B1 or higher English for working with an international team.

Nice to have

• gRPC and Protobuf experience.
• Kubernetes and Helm knowledge.
• CI/CD pipeline experience, ideally with GitLab CI.
• Kafka, Pub/Sub, or other message brokers and event-driven patterns.
• Interest in MLOps and an understanding of how ML models reach and stay in production.

Benefits and work setup

• Relocation support to hubs in Cyprus, Serbia, or Kazakhstan, with assistance for the employee and their family.
• Flexible work from one of the offices or remote.
• Healthcare coverage, an education budget for languages and certifications, and a wellness budget for mental health and fitness.
• 20 days of annual leave plus paid sick leave.