Python Software Engineer

Budapest, District V. - hybrid work model (2 days/week on-site)

Our partner, a global, US-based investment firm, is looking for talented individuals to contribute to data-driven strategies across international markets by analyzing inefficiencies and generating predictive alpha signals. The company fosters a collaborative, intellectually curious culture where great ideas are welcomed. Technologists play a key role in building their own platforms while collaborating with researchers and portfolio managers through high-impact engineering.

Python Software Engineer

They are seeking a talented developer with experience in the development of robust, scalable backend systems to build and maintain the next generation of our technology. The team’s technology is a key component of signal research and portfolio generation. The team is involved at every stage of the software development lifecycle from planning to operations and provides second line support to production. The software is written primarily in Python and built on a modern stack but the role is open to all software developers who thrive on solving complex technical problems; experience in finance is not required. The team is open and inclusive to everyone; the diverse projects may require working alone or in a team alongside users to adapt the system to new business requirements.

Responsibilities 

• Design distributed system architecture for systems and services
• Develop and maintain backend services in Python
• Participate in development and maintenance of …
  • services to work with third parties such as: Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, etc.
  • monitoring services using Prometheus, Grafana Sentry, Alerta, etc.
• Coordinate with stakeholders such as pure infrastructure team, business team, etc... to resolve crossing issues

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent job experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing scalable and robust software applications in web environments with exposure to backend stacks
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, Object Oriented Programming and Model-View-Controller web framework
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux environment
• Experience with microservices, caching tools, data visualization, queuing systems or large-scale distributed systems are great plus
• Experience with Spark, Kafka, K8s is also desirable
• Excellent debugging and problem solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

Our partner offers

• Core benefits include premium private health insurance and life insurance with savings plan  
• Support for every aspect of life through Employee Assistance Program and fully covered sick leave 
• Strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, guest speakers, share and learn events, global conferences 
• Regular offsite team buildings, annual conferences and occasional global summits – opportunity to travel and connect with their local and global teams 
• Employee resources groups with strong diversity and inclusion culture

 

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