Python Developer

What you’ll do

Perform general application development activities, including unit testing, code deployment to development environment and technical documentation.

Work on one or more projects, making contributions to unfamiliar code written by team members.

Diagnose and resolve performance issues.

Participate in the estimation process, use case specifications, reviews of test plans and test cases, requirements, and project planning.

Document code/processes so that any other developer is able to dive in with minimal effort.

Develop, and operate high scale applications from the backend to UI layer, focusing on operational excellence, security and scalability.

Apply modern software development practices (serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.)

Work across teams to integrate our systems with existing internal systems, Data Fabric, CSA Toolset.

Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions to turn business requirements and vision into reality.

Participate in a tight-knit engineering team employing agile software development practices.

Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on network, or service operations and quality.

Write, debug, and troubleshoot code in mainstream open source technologies

Lead effort for Sprint deliverables, and solve problems with medium complexity

Research, create, and develop software applications to extend and improve on Equifax Solutions

Collaborate on scalability issues involving access to data and information.

Actively participate in Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity

What experience you need  

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

5+ years working experience software development using the most recent version of Python

3+ years experience with software build management tools like Maven or Gradle

3+ years experience with CI/CD Jenkins pipeline development and backend coding

3+ years experience with software testing, performance, and quality engineering techniques and strategies

3+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure is preferable

Experience and familarity with the various Python frameworks currently in use to leverage software development processes

What could set you apart

Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision

Experience designing and developing  big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others

Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.

Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)

Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)

Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)

Developing with modern Python version