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Software Engineer (Python) - Hong Kong - Global Investment Firm

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Software Engineer (Python) - Hong Kong - Global Investment Firm

Top-tier, US-based buy-side firm is now looking for a Software Engineer (Python) to join their Front Office Technology team.

Responsibilities:

  • You will be accountable for all parts of the software development lifecycle for projects
  • You will contribute to the development of best practices within group
  • You will lead code reviews and actively participate in providing feedback on others' designs/code
  • You will be accountable for technical debt in their own software
  • You will take control of complex or vague problems and steps through them in a rational way
  • You will perform as an expert in one or more parts of the software lifecycle (e.g., coding, testing, deployment) and oversee significant pieces of development within the development lifecycle
  • You will design and develop practical APIs and abstractions.
  • You will develop data models or schemas from scratch and know of key concepts such as ACID, Normalization, and Transactions
  • You will make tactical vs. strategic tradeoffs
  • You will be able to evolve a solution when additional information or ideas are presented
  • You will mentor junior members of the team

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or the equivalent
  • Expert with Python and JavaScript based technologies
  • Solid experience with SQL and other database technologies
  • Experience with React, NodeJS is preferred
  • Experience using AWS to build end to end distributed technical solutions is preferred
  • Experience creating micro services and adopting application containerization using tools like Docker is preferred
  • Knowledge and experience with gRPC and experience using Git for version control is a plus

Please send cv to Jessie.Rao@ambition.com.hk

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