Senior Software Engineer Python

Nika IT Solutions is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer (Python) to join their team focused on developing business applications for an airline company. The role involves creating and maintaining applications, collaborating with various departments, and ensuring compliance with design and business requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Develop web and mobile applications using modern tech-stack, patterns, and latest technologies
• Create new programs and maintain existing programs, utilizing the latest programming languages and development environments
• Collaborate with various departments (i.e., business, product, sales, etc.) to gather the business requirements for the software
• Define, review, implement, and document the development of the applications and ensure compliance with the original design and the business requirements
• Suggest technologies and third-party services/components improve the software
• Create and maintain cloud-based web services for server-side infrastructure, including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Firebase
• Perform technical audits on existing platforms analyze results to offer the best solutions
• Research and stay informed of the latest technologies to ensure that platforms are designed and updated to take advantage of the latest technologies, methodologies, and best practices
• Support debugging and issue resolution for customer escalations

Requirements:

• 3+ years working experience
• Experience working with low-latency, high-volume, and highly-available distributed systems including deployment, monitoring, and building robust fault-tolerant systems
• Highly responsible, self-motivated, and able to thrive in an energetic, fast-paced, creative environment
• Strong work ethic and able to work effectively independently and in collaborative team environments
• Knows what needs to be done and operates with a sense of urgency, focus, and discipline
• Have excellent communication skills (written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal)
• Team player, with a strong sense of ownership and a 'get things done' attitude
• Detailed-oriented persona, who is very meticulous about their work
• Above all, ethical, fair, and maintaining high integrity
• Python
• Test automation (pytest)
• Javascript
• CSS/HTML
• SQL/Relational Database experience
• Docker
• Django
• React
• Angular
• Nodejs
• Cloud-native application design
• AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, CloudWatch, AppSync, API Gateway, IAM)
• CI/CD (Jenkins)