Python Developer with API backend

• Luxoft is looking for a Senior Python developer for the development of a new application to be used by investors and investment committees to review their portfolio data, tailored to specific user groups.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the business team, business analysts, and architects and be able to quickly understand the new requirements and help to identify the changes to the system.
• Work closely on a day-to-day basis with the development team, designers, copywriters, and other IT teams.
• The role develops and presents recommendations from the analysis of the current solution. Assist in design peer reviews, code peer reviews, build, and unit test functional enhancements. Identify areas for code refactoring. Review and contribute to the development process and procedures to assist in the continual improvement of the development team activities.
• Be able to offer solutions and designs to solve process, project, or program issues; provide recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness. Defends a recommendation and can confidently support it.
• Strong organization, communication, and interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate with business and technical audiences and produce design documents suitable for multiple audience types, both client-facing and internal
• Must be able to exhibit technical thought leadership and excellent problem-solving ability, with an aptitude for technical innovation.

Mandatory Skills

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong backend development experience with Python, writing clean and maintainable production code
• Proven experience designing and building production APIs (FastAPI preferred)
• Strong system and API design skills, including scalability, performance, and reliability
• Strong SQL skills for data modelling and query optimization

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