Senior Python Developer for Ciklum Digital Offline

Ciklum is building a team to work on various projects which primary goal to improve and automate the customer’s business processes, reduce the time and efforts, required for various operations.

About the Project:

Headquartered in New York City, VAST Data is simplifying the data center and redefining how organizations interact with data with its Universal Storage concept. They are looking for innovative, talented and hard-working people to join their fast-growing team.

You will work in an environment where collaborating on ideas, questioning assumptions and rethinking the nature of the problem is as fundamental as the air they breathe. Where you thrive on finding new ways to move forward. Where you are challenged to reject incremental gains in favor of finding bold paths that can altogether change the nature of computing. Imagine the vast difference this would make. Their team thrives in an informal and collaborative environment where team members are encouraged to grow beyond the confines of their job description or role.

Responsibilities

Back-end development to meet customer’s business needs and implement components according to modern software development environment (cloud-based platforms, microservice architecture, etc.)

Taking part in the decision-making process in design application architecture, solution development, architecture and code review

Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/update to specifications for the solution

Design and implement a set of various types of tests (unit, integration, functional, etc)

Proactive position in solution development, processes improvements

Working in an international distributed team in an Agile environment

Communicate with PMs, engineers, Architects, QA and other colleagues and stakeholders

Delivering the product roadmap and plannings

To use high coding standards, software best practices and write highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC

Requirements

Experience in software development for more than 5 years

Strong Linux knowledge (more than 3 years)

Excellent knowledge in Computing Theory:

Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID, DDD, TDD, BDD)

Database theory (RDBMS, NoSQL)

Code testing practices

Algorithms

Data structures

Architectural, Enterprise and Design Patterns

Understanding of network interactions:

protocols

conventions (e.g. REST, RPC)

authentication and authorization flows

standards and practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)

Excellent knowledge and experience in Python (more than 5 years):

Strong Multiprocessing, Threading and AIO knowledge

Low-level network knowing (e.g. socket, TCP / UDP)

Practical commercial experience with:

Web application frameworks (e.g. Flask, Falcon, Django, aiohttp) (more than 3 year)

PyTest frameworks (more than 3 years)

RDBMS (e.g PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MS SQL) (more than 2 year)

Key-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)

Messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Active MQ, AWS SQS)

GIT Version control system

Cloud computing platforms AWS or GoogleCloud Platform

Docker

Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins)

Experience with:

Troubleshooting, profiling and debugging applications

Creation software architecture and design of complex applications

Agile software processes and technologies

Code Review process

Refactoring process

Fluent or Upper-Intermediate English

Desirable

Certifications on:

Python

Cloud computing platforms (AWS, GoogleCloud Platform)

Ability to lead feature development, take full ownership of tasks from A-Z and deliver independently with minimum supervision

Understanding of orchestration and containerisation (e.g. Kubernetes, Swarm)

Knowledge in Deployment patterns

Practical commercial experience with:

NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB)

Experience with Search Engines (e.g. ElasticSearch, Azure Search, Apache Solr)

Quality tools (e.g. SonarQube, Radon)

What's in it for you

Close cooperation with the client

A constant flow of new projects

Dynamic and challenging tasks

Ability to influence project technologies

Projects from scratch

Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills

European management style

Continuous self-improvement