Saxon Global
Python Developer Senior
Saxon Global, McLean, Virginia, 22107
Senior Fullstack Developer Mclean, VA (Hybrid On-Site) Position Overview: Are you interested in using your software engineering skills to build numerical systems that enable running computationally intensive financial models at scale? Financial Engineering is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to design, implement and maintain software applications that enable measuring and managing the risk of our loan and investment portfolio. The software enables all lines of business to run computationally intensive models on a highly scalable, cloud-based environment (>10K cores) which provide business critical data and analytics. Our impact We partner with various modeling teams (Single Family, Multi Family and Investments) that are responsible for the firm's credit and interest rate risk models We build financial model applications and risk management tools that make these models available for business use We ensure that our systems are robust, scalable and fault-tolerant Your impact As a full stack developer (preferably polyglot), you will bring strong technical skills and the ability to design, propose, implement and deliver high quality products Enhance existing design and improve code quality and system efficiency Build reusable and scalable frameworks to enable other developers to solve problems at a high level of abstraction (API/Library/Service) Provide strong technical leadership to other junior members of the team Build partnerships with modeling, Information Technology and business teams Qualifications Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical field and 5-8 years of experience developing software applications, including experience with each of the following: A strong understanding of software engineering principles - design, development and operations Day to day hands on full stack developer - Python and AWS Experience building resilient and scalable software that is easily portable to various computing infrastructures - on-prem, cloud Ability to motivate, teach and train other team members Experience in the financial industry, especially mortgages Exposure to quantitative finance and data science Exposure to Big Data technologies Keys to Success in this Role Curious mind set Passionate about hands-on software development Strong collaboration and communication skills (both written and verbal) Desire to continuously improve the technical quality and architecture of our systems to respond to business needs Ability to quickly learn, apply and deploy new technologies to solve emerging problems Required Skills : Python, AWS Basic Qualification : 6 years of Python Experience 5 years of AWS experience Additional Skills : 6 years of Python Experience 5 years of AWS experience Background Check :Yes Drug Screen :Yes Notes : Selling points for candidate : Project Verification Info : Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes Exclusive to Apex :No Face to face interview required :No Candidate must be local :Yes Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No Interview times set : :No Type of project :Development/Engineering Master Job Title :Dev: Java Branch Code :DC Metro Commercial