Python Developer

About the job

As a Python Developer, you will leverage your technical skills into the world of finance. This is your chance to work and collaborate with some of the world’s most elite financial institutions utilizing leading-edge technologies and innovation to solve complex business challenges. As a member of our global development team, you will integrate, build and grow our product offerings.

Who will love this job

• An engineer – who has a passion for algorithms and computer science, system performance, clean code, and architecture with an owner mentality.
• An innovator – who loves refactoring, is not afraid to change the code and experiment, and prefers automation to routine tasks.
• A doer – who is enthusiastic about new challenges, a broad spectrum of responsibilities, and hard work to produce high-quality results.
• A learner – who is not afraid of being outside of the comfort zone and ready to dive into one of the most complicated business domains.
• A teacher – who shares approaches and ideas and can bring their own expertise and point of view to the company.
• An excellent teammate – who has a combination of technical and personal qualities to thrive in a cutting-edge software development environment.

What you’ll do

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• We love engineering, and hence we build our processes around writing code, designing systems, refactoring, and solving problems. You’ll work on our real-time risk product which is built with a service-oriented architecture in Python, Java and TypeScript.
• You'll have the opportunity to build innovative products that solve real institutional customer problems. Your career path will shape the technologies you use and your responsibilities, which can include addressing scalability challenges, optimizing code, refactoring, modernizing systems, migrating data, developing new features, and using production tools. Maintaining and fixing bugs is part of keeping everything running smoothly.

You should have

• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a software developer/engineer
• Strong computer science fundamentals (e.g.: algorithms, data structures)
• Understanding of operation systems fundamentals (e.g.: memory management, processes, threads, synchronization)
• Understanding of communication protocols (e.g.: REST, AMQP, gRPC)
• Experience working in Unix/Linux environment (e.g.: shell scripting)
• Experience with document-oriented and/or relational databases (e.g.: PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• Experience with virtualization/containerization of a solution (e.g.: Docker)
• Deep understanding of the Python language and its environment
• Proficiency in the unit testing methodologies
• Readiness to shift between programming languages/technologies
• Readiness to obtain domain knowledge

Nice to have

• Knowledge of other programming languages (e.g.: Java, TypeScript)
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g.: Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Hands-on experience building distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow®
• Institutional Financial Knowledge

Why TS Imagine / Benefits

• Please note: This role requires applicants to be based in Montreal, as it is an in-office position. Remote work is not possible
• Unlimited Vacation and Personal days
• Annual bonus and salary review
• Training budget $1,500
• RRSP with 3% company matching
• Health insurance
• Subvention for public transportation