Location: Chicago, Illinois
Employment Type: Contract To Hire
Job ID: 833
Date Added: 06/02/2025
Primary Function:
The client is building core engineering competencies that will enable them to make releases daily. The engineering team is composed of a talented group of front-end, back-end, and full stack engineers. Seeking a Senior Software Engineer that will collaborate with various other Engineering groups, Project Managers and other team members.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Passion for product quality and attention to detail
- Comfort with ambiguity – They are constantly striving to make progress even with the unknowns in their space
- As you are developing, testing should be at the forefront of your mind.
- Developing iteratively during AGILE sprints
- Delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with team members, product managers and the XD team
- Mentor interns and junior software engineers.
- Participate in code and design reviews with peers and partners
- Comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
Qualifications:
- 5-10 years of experience
- Mastery of Python
- Preference for candidates experienced with:
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and associated services; e.g. BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Composer
- Understanding of multiple programming paradigms
- Good grasp of design patterns and anti-patterns
- Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools
- Excellent verbal and written communications
- Strong team player
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Superior communication and business-technical interaction skills
- Positive, “get it done” attitude
- Experience with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL and Redis
- Experience with a cloud framework preferably AWS or GCP
- Familiarity with foundational frameworks from languages and domains such as Django and Flask among others
- Understanding of JavaScript and Typescript as well as Webpack and Docker
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