Senior Python Engineer (AWS)

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Job Description

About the Client

Our client is a well-established US technology company in the fintech domain, providing modern digital financial solutions to millions of customers. The team works on large-scale cloud-native platforms, leveraging modern engineering practices and distributed systems technologies.

What You'll Do

• Own and deliver quarterly objectives for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve complex, open-ended problems and ensuring successful execution.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Design, and Analytics teams throughout the product development lifecycle, contributing to ideation, defining technical constraints, and helping evaluate risks and trade-offs.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology, or business challenges and take a leading role in driving solutions.
• Support the reliability and availability of services owned by your team by defining and monitoring key metrics, participating in incident management, and contributing to operational excellence and on-call activities.
• Foster a culture of quality, engineering excellence, and ownership by establishing and promoting best practices for software design, architecture, and code reviews.
• Mentor and support other engineers by providing constructive feedback, sharing knowledge, and leading by example.

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering scalable backend systems using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, or similar programming languages.
• Proven experience building and maintaining highly available distributed systems in cloud environments, leveraging technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Spark, or equivalent platforms.
• Strong ability to define and execute technical plans for significant features or system components, with a focus on scalable, maintainable, and extensible design.
• Experience working within large codebases, implementing substantial changes safely through engineering best practices, automation, testing, and deployment processes.
• Demonstrated ownership mindset with a commitment to continuous learning, professional growth, and proactive feedback.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed and global engineering teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in high-scale, customer-facing platforms.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.

What you will have working here

• We care about all our employees and want them to feel as comfortable as possible. That's why we offer health insurance from the first days, regardless of the probationary period.

• The Gift from the Company - Christmas holidays from December 25 to December 31.

• Cooperation with Superhumans center and Veteran HUB. Capgemini Engineering has supported the launch of psychological rehabilitation department of Superhumans. Our team also donated over UAH 500 000 prosthetics for three Ukrainian defenders. Currently, we support psychological counseling provided by the Veteran Hub, and we have implemented an internal policy making the company friendly to military and veterans with the assistance of the Hub.

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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