Python Developer

Lead Engineer – Python Developer About StarCompliance StarCompliance is on a mission to make compliance simple and easy. Trusted globally by enterprise financial institutions, the user-friendly STAR platform empowers organizations to achieve regulatory compliance while safeguarding their integrity and business reputations. Through a customizable, 360-degree view of employee activity, the STAR software enables firms to automate the detection and resolution of potential areas of conflict while streamlining daily workflows and increasing efficiency.  Role Working as part of a highly agile team, this is a challenging but exciting opportunity for a lead developer to play an important part in developing key service components that help create best in class employee compliance solutions. The candidate must have a good level of experience of working with and overseeing the development of complex, multi-tenanted, scalable applications/microservices. Great coding hygiene, solid design and architecture experience are essential. The candidate will work closely with a technical lead to ensure applications that are developed are of a high standard and fit for purpose.  

Responsibilities

• Assist the technical lead in driving solutions to complex problems 
• Build new and enhance existing services and their components 
• Contribute to improving development and DataOps experience 
• Look for ways to help others, whether this be through mentoring, pair programming or other approach to knowledge sharing 

Skills & Experience

• Proficient in Python 
• Experience of using ORM frameworks (e.g.SqlAlchemy, Django) 
• A good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and Design 
• Commercial experience of working on enterprise level applications 
• A proven track record overseeing the development of large/complex projects 
• Experience of relational database management systems (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle,PostgreSQL) 
• Strong interpersonal skills, working with internal technical staff and stakeholders 
• Practical experience of analysing requirements 
• Ability to quickly learn new technical skills 
• Coaching and mentoring 

Desirable

• Experience of working with Flask, MongoDB, Kafka, Typescript, AWS 
• Experience of working with statically typed Python codebases 
• Experience defining, implementing or supporting software in financial services industry(either traditional finance or crypto) preferred 
• Experience of Domain Driven Design (DDD) 

StarCompliance Background Checks

• Process
All positions require pre-employment screening due to employees potentially having access to highly sensitive and confidential information involving finance and compliance; candidates must be trustworthy and have a heightened sensitivity to protecting confidential financial, professional information.  To be eligible for employment with StarCompliance, candidates must undergo a rigorous background investigation with checks including, but not limited to, criminal record history, consumer credit, employment history, qualifications, and education checks.    Equal Opportunity Employer Statement We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, marital/civil union/domestic partnership status, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by country, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. StarCompliance makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, please request a copy of our Equal Opportunities Policy.