Senior Python Engineer
Overview
Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every industry. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.
We are looking for a passionate, technically strong Software engineer who understands technical requirements, design solutions, collaborate with stakeholders and deliver technology services in a high velocity, dynamic, "always on" environment.
Responsibilities
- Translate high-level requirements to actionable tasks and deliverables.
- Contribute to architecture and design for both large and small-scale systems.
- Design, build and operate distributed software services for transaction processing.
- Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and continuously integrated.
- Collaborate with Quality assurance team in test planning and test coverage.
- Collaborate with DevOps and CI/CD in operational visibility, triaging incidents, and deployment planning.
- A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment.
- Actively participate in growing and coaching fellow team members.
- Understand future business goals from Product Owners and make sure architecture and system design can support those goals.
- Build proof-of-concepts to validate architectural and design choices and evangelize those technical choices to other teams.
- Able to understand, diagnose and then solve deep technical and performance issues across the platform.
- Provide development support to resolve any issues with technical systems and applications.
- Software Engineering or related field education preferred or equivalent work experience.
- 4+ years experience and strong skills in backend development with Python.
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles and best practices.
- Experience in developing highly scalable, performant, and critical systems using OOPS and/or Functional programming.
- Strong in Test-Driven Development and proficiency in writing maintainable and adaptable code.
- Proficiency with SQL and experience working on one or more databases e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server.
- Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services.
- Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.
- Strong understanding of an Agile work environment and Agile SDLC.
- Ambitious and highly motivated to deliver outstanding solutions with minimal mentorship.
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills and experience in monitoring, alerting and distributed tracing.
- Real passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Exposure to cloud technologies.
- Experience in Tornado Python Web framework is good to have.
Benefits
- A growing innovative company with a friendly atmosphere
- Social Responsibility Initiatives
- Creative, people-oriented, encouraging working environment
- Cutting-edge technologies and tools
- Office in the city center with parking for cars, bicycles, and scooters
- Private health insurance
- Additional vacation days for each year spent with us
- Solid salary and annual bonuses for the achieved results
- NYSE: FOUR Restricted Stock Units award based on your seniority
- Employee referral program.
The salary range for this position is 5500-7500 EUR / gross. The exact salary will be determined based on the candidate’s experience.
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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
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