Senior Python Developer

• New York
• Hybrid
• Hourly salary: $85 - $89

Our mission is to develop a firmwide Artificial Intelligence (AI) Development Platform that aligns with the firms Technology principles and drives efficiency and consistency controls security and strong governance and promotes innovation enabling teams to build applications that leverage AI capabilities and accelerate the adoption of AI across our businesses.

This role is for a senior Python developer who will help build a firmwide AI Development Platform and drive adoption of AI capabilities throughout the enterprise. We are looking for an experienced software engineer with deep Python expertise a strong foundation in software design principles and a track record of building and maintaining production-grade software. The ideal candidate is passionate about developing modular testable and maintainable systems that can evolve over time and enjoys building reusable platform capabilities that can be adopted at enterprise scale.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience building production software platforms and distributed systems including APIs services libraries and SDKs. Experience with Kubernetes cloud platforms (AWS Azure and/or GCP) and modern software delivery practices is highly desirable. Candidates should demonstrate strong software engineering fundamentals including software design testing maintainability and long-term ownership of production systems. Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and hands-on experience implementing solutions using Generative AI technologies are a plus. The successful candidate will possess excellent communication skills a collaborative mindset and a passion for leveraging AI to improve developer productivity and deliver innovative solutions across the firm.

Responsibilities:

• Develop tooling and self-service capabilities for deploying AI solutions for the firm leveraging Kubernetes Python authentication solutions APIs REST framework etc
• Have a platform mindset and build common reusable solutions to scale Generative AI use cases using pre-trained models as well as fine-tuned models.
• Leverage Kubernetes to develop modern containerized workloads
• Integrate with capabilities such as large-scale vector stores for embeddings.
• Author best practices on the Generative AI ecosystem when to use which tools available models such as GPT Llama Hugging Face etc. and libraries such as Langchain.
• Analyze investigate and implement GenAI solutions focusing on Agentic Orchestration and Agent Builder frameworks.
• Participate in all teams Agile/ Scrum ceremonies.

Required Skills:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent job experience
• 10 years of overall experience in software engineering design and development
• 5 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production Python applications or libraries using idiomatic Python type annotations automated testing and static analysis
• Prior production development experience in a statically typed language such as Java or C# with an understanding of explicit contracts type safety and maintainable software design.
• Experience designing and maintaining modular readable well-tested production code with clear interfaces appropriate abstractions consistent coding standards and effective dependency management.
• Understanding of dependency injection and inversion of control with experience using DI containers or equivalent dependency-management approaches.
• Strong understanding of data structures and software design principles with the ability to apply appropriate patterns without unnecessary complexity.
• Experience with test-driven development (TDD) automated unit and integration testing and designing code that can be tested independently of external services.
• Experience participating in design reviews and code reviews with a focus on maintainability testability and long-term ownership.
• Experience with designing APIs and SDKs
• Experience in development management and deployment of Kubernetes workloads.
• Hands-on experience with multiprocessing multithreading asynchronous I/O performance profiling in at least one prominent programming language
• Ability to articulate technical concepts effectively to diverse audiences.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience in DevOps understanding of CI/CD (Jenkins) and GitOps.
• Knowledge of DevOps and Agile practices.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience deploying applications on Azure AWS and/or GCP using IaC (Terraform)
• Understanding of OAuth 2.0 protocol for secure authorization.
• Experience with Open Telemetry tools including Grafana Loki Prometheus and Cortex.
• Good knowledge of Microservice based architecture industry standards for both public and private cloud.
• Good understanding of modern Application configuration techniques.
• Good knowledge of various DB engines (SQL Redis Kafka etc) for cloud app storage.
• Deep understanding of AI agents Agentic Orchestration Multi-Agent Workflow Automation along with hands-on experience in Agent Builder frameworks such Lang Chain Lang Graph Microsoft Agent Framework.
• Experience working with Generative AI development embeddings.
• Understanding of SRE techniques.