Senior Software Engineer - Parametric (Python)

About The Role

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with a robust background in API development and building data processing systems. This role requires knowledge of cloud technologies, proficiency in Python, and direct experience working with databases. The ideal candidate will be technically strong, motivated to solve problems, loves to learn and experiment, uses data and empirical evidence to make thoughtful decisions, and a team player who is ok to work with a geo distributed team. You should be capable of bootstrapping yourself with new technologies and develop strong logical opinions while maintaining openness to ideas from others. As a critical player in a cross-functional team who cares a lot about the users, your collaborative and innovative problem-solving skills will be highly valued.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Scope, lead, build the backend portion of new user facing features in an evolving product with a growing internal user base.
2. Work closely in a cross discipline team to build full stack user facing features. This will include doing API development, data engineering, and cloud infrastructure development types of projects.
3. Help continue to mature the cloud-based platform that is critical to the day-to-day of the company. Make it increasingly low touch and robust. Work with the support team to handle production issues. Help them help us in our endeavor in keeping the app up and available all the time.
4. Work with engineers in other project teams to properly integrate with their services and applications in the execution of ETL style worflows.
5. Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation. Maintaining quality is important.
6. Teach and mentor both individual contributors and managers to become the next generation of leaders at Parametric. As a senior member on the team you will be looked to for guidance in helping to grow our technical knowledgebase.

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of experience shipping high-quality user-facing products and engineering large systems.
• 5+ years of experience in writing Python while implementing programs.
• API Development experience.
• Familiarity with functional programming is a bonus.
• Must have cloud computing experience and skills.
• Terraform and use tech like AWS DynamoDB, AWS Opensearch, AWS Neptune, AWS Lambdas, AWS ECS, Gitlab, Sentry so exposure to these is a plus.
• We are open to skilled engineers with experience in other languages and equivalent tech.
• Are comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations.
• Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code.
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team.
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones and have a good intuition for what will last and scale.
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Client Relations, Investment Operations, Portfolio Management, Sales. Our goal is to help make work flow between these different functional groups.