Senior Python Engineer Vacancy
at The Data Duck

About The Data Duck

The Data Duck (www.thedataduck.com) is a software design and development company headquartered in Mumbai, India. We are building a product that enables renewable energy to be traded. The project is a long term project with a 7-year horizon.

At The Data Duck, we pride ourselves on providing our team with a work-life balance and flexibility to work from home. Our office is in Andheri East, Mumbai. We empower our developers to become the best versions of themselves through mentorship and training. Join us for a wonderful professional journey.

Job Description

As a Senior Python Engineer, you will be working on developing best in class microservices for a renewables trading platform - Trailstone. You’ll be working with a team of over 40 people around the globe. More information about Trailstone can be found here: https://www.trailstonegroup.com .

Tasks

• - Design, develop and maintain microservices, ETL jobs and system components for a Python-based data integration, processing and analytics platform
• - Work in a cross-functional team with engineers, business analysts, traders and data scientists
• - Stay up to date with the latest trends in technology and continuously improve the platform
• - Mentor junior members in the team by relentlessly guarding code quality through pull requests and code reviews

Skills

• - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another technical field and/or provable relevant industry experience
• - **5 years experience working with Python**
• - Good oral and written English skills
• - Solid understanding of object-oriented, functional and asynchronous programming and design patterns in a Python
• - Advanced knowledge of SQL
• - A passion for delivering clean code and working with a test-driven mindset
• - DevOps mindset with appreciation to work in a hybrid-cloud and container-driven architecture (partly on-premise and partly AWS)
• - Ideally knowledgeable about parts of the following tech stack: FastAPI, Pandas, Redis, Fargate, Docker, S3, RabbitMQ, AWS Athena

Traits

• - Proactive, pragmatic problem solver with a strong bias for action
• - Actively help yourself and others to be successful
• - A positive, team-oriented mindset, and a passion for mentoring and sharing knowledge
• - Self-starter, requiring little supervision or guidance
• - Shows ownership and accountability in all aspects of work
• - Comfortable in a startup environment with less structure and driven by deadlines
• - Continuously learn and challenge the status quo