Senior Fullstack Python Developer

Job Title: Senior Full Stack Python Developer

Company/Client: Bank of America

Location: Dublin, South

Work Model: Hybrid (3 days per week onsite, 2 days remote)

Employment type: Contract – 12 months rolling (multiple extensions highly likely)

Pay Rate/Salary: €550 – €650 per day

Role Description

We are looking for a talented Senior Full stack Python Software Engineer to work on a new data lineage reporting project.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and delivering software to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the role include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional and non-functional requirements. You will refine stories, code solutions, build unit tests, and ensure that solutions can be integrated successfully into the overall application. You will become an expert on development and testing practices at Bank of America. You will work closely with business users, business analysts, and development team colleagues to build best-in-class solutions.

The Team

Teamwork is key to our culture, and we interact closely with our business partners. We work in an agile fashion and are always striving to improve our processes. We leverage a wide range of technologies and place a big emphasis on researching new approaches and technologies.

We are a growing team of five people looking to expand to 14 over the next year. We want people that are proactive, intellectually curious, and enjoy problem-solving.

Bank of America’s scale and scope offers an exceptional variety of career development paths for both long-term rolling contracts on multiple projects and opportunities to convert to permanent positions.

Responsibilities

• Build efficient back-end features in Python.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Writing clean, efficient ,and reusable code following coding standards and best practices
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design into the code.
• Implement software enhancements and suggest improvements.
• Coach junior team members, and provide technical leadership and guidance to Junior Developers
• Optimising Application performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks and implementing efficient algorithms.

Essential Skills Required

• Strong proficiently in Python programming language, including its syntax, data structures, and object-oriented concepts.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience programming with Python is essential for this role, preferably on enterprise-level applications
• Experience with Python frameworks (SQLAlchemy, Django, Flask, Bottle)
• Good relational database/SQL experience e.g., PostgreSQL and MySQL or SQL Server
• Practical knowledge of a UI framework, Angular, React, or Vue - in that order
• Experience in performance optimisation techniques including profiling, caching, and code refactoring.
• Solid understanding of Software testing methodologies, including unit testing, integration testing and end-to-end testing.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases and Graph databases is strongly preferred

Nice to haves

• Solid Linux/UNIX experience
• Familiarity with testing framework for Python Application such as Selenium or Pytest.
• Knowledge of Openshift, Kubernetes and cloud native applications is a major plus
• Familiarity in Integrating services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)) and REST API
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible
• Proficiency in working in an Agile project management environment.
• Building and deploying Microservices in Python
• Experience working within the financial domain

Please note that for this role an ability to start working full time within a reasonable timeframe is essential (5 weeks or less). Applicants who live in Ireland with part-time working rights will be considered. Applicants, who have the right to work full-time in Ireland and are willing to relocate promptly will also be considered.

Applicants who do not reside in Ireland, and also do not have the necessary working permissions to work full-time in the country can not be considered and should not apply.