Graduate Software Developer - Python

Since 2003, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices. Regulatory oversight is constant, and the compliance department is one of the largest in the company. Founded in 2003, we now have 1,600 employees. Quarter-end is busy, and everyone helps with client review prep.

Overview

Clarke Wealth Partners is hiring for the Graduate Software Developer - Python role on our Developer Experience team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Main duties

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents

Minimum qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI

Preferred qualifications

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Rate: $1,900-$2,250/month

Why work with us

• Paid time off
• Monthly internet allowance

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Clarke Wealth Partners.