SR. PYTHON DEVELOPER

Job Summary
Sr. Python Developer
Plymouth Meeting, PA
12+ months contarct

Interview: Phone then On-Site Interview (Skype from Local Office allowable)
Required Skills :
Python, Microservices, SQL, Flask, Rest API
Your typical activities might include:

• Collaborating with data scientists, data engineers and other developers to turn working prototypes into well-abstracted, reusable python modules for iterative development of data science projects.
• Overseeing technical aspects of greenfield projects from concept to completion.
• Digging into a variety of databases to engineer a data pipeline to extract datasets for ML training and predictions.
• Providing technical leadership and assisting the team on execution of technical tasks centered on delivery of analytics models as containerized applications.
• Identifying opportunities for improvements of applications like improving services response time and horizontal scaling
• Comprehensive testing of your own code.
• Production deployments of microservices to k8s cluster through a CI/CD pipeline that you will design and setup.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• A Bachelors or master’s degree in STEM field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Biotechnology.
• Expert familiarity with Python 3 supported by 5+ years of backend programming experience using object-oriented and functional paradigms
• Experience designing and implementing Rest API, with frameworks like Flask or Falcon
• Proficient understanding of designing microservices based applications
• Experience with relational databases and good understanding of SQL
• Experience with non-relational databases like MongoDB and Redis
• Strong unit testing and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Linux proficiency and experience with containerization tools such as Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience in following Scrum best practices

We will also appreciate if you have some of:

• Experience in putting machine learning models into production
• Familiarity with advanced Python data structures like numpy arrays and pandas
• Familiarity with process of building python packages
• Experience with workflow managers like Airflow, Azkaban or Luigi
• Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem like YARN, Hive, Impala, HDFS.
• Experience working with large volumes of complex data, preferably in distributed frameworks such as Spark
• Experience with deploying code into production through CI/CD tools like Jenkins
• Front-end experience with some modern JavaScript frameworks
• Experience programming in Scala
• Experience with ELK stack or Kafka

Job Type: Contract

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)