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Job Description - Senior Python Engineer Financial & Scientific Models
We do want someone who is not only Python developer but has data science expertise in financial / scientific models
Top 5 Technical Skills:
• Python Development
• Financial and/or scientific Models
• Databricks and or
• Palantir
• Azure ADO's
What Role You Will Play In Our Team
Take a lead role in organizing and applying software engineering standards to the existing modeling codebase, re-writing it to make it more robust, maintainable, and extensible
What You Will Do
Work with the data scientists and computational engineers to understand the existing Python financial and scientific models, refactoring prototype models into production-quality code
Architect code changes to improve performance, maintainability, or extensibility as needed
Work with the team to establish software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews and other standard techniques
Work with the data team to improve data interfaces between the models and the data layer
Skills And Qualifications
Bachelor s degree in computer science, engineering, quantitative sciences, or mathematics; alternatively significant practical software project experience
5+ years of meaningful Python project experience, with code complex enough to require modular or object-oriented Python code
Proficient with pandas and numpy libraries; capable of optimizing performance of code that uses them
Experience integrating testing frameworks (e.g. pytest), writing unit tests, and organizing CI/CD pipelines for Python code
Good technical communication and collaboration skills; experience working in Agile teams
Preferred Qualifications/ Experience
Experience writing financial models in Python
Experience using Databricks or Palantir
Experience with writing Spark code in Python or with other parallelization techniques and distributed computing frameworks
