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Job Title: Python developer
Location: Houston, TX (onsite at least 3-4 days/week)
Duration: 12 months
This role must be performed from our Houston, TX location, with a requirement to work onsite 3-4 days per week.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Works largely independently within defined projects/work streams and is checked on end results. Has an executional role in design and development projects or acts as an expert tester who designs test scripts and provides overall project guidance and planning support. Advises internally on solving functional and technical problems regarding the assigned applications and Infrastructure.
Mandatory skills:
API development using Python as OOP
--Experience in how distributed asynchronous systems work, how to design them to avoid data conflicts and how to do it all in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines.
--Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB, Oracle
--Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub
--Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skill
--Object-orientated software professional that ideally has experience using at least one strongly typed language
--Collaborate with the lead functional developer to define, develop, test, and release new features
--Provide workarounds & bug fixes for urgent production issues
--Familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
--Experience at mentoring junior staff.
Optional skills:
Client trades on several different exchanges to achieve the best execution for the business, and these trades are required to be entered into Client s Enterprise Risk Management Systems (ETRMs) in a timely manner to provide accurate management information, including P&L data. This is currently a manual process with trades being entered on a best-endeavors basis throughout the day, therefore sometimes many hours passing between trade execution and trade entry.