Senior Python Engineer

Overview

Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every industry. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate, technically strong Python engineer who understands technical requirements, design solutions, collaborate with stakeholders and deliver technology services in a high velocity, dynamic, "always on" environment.

• Translate high-level requirements to actionable tasks and deliverables.

• Contribute to architecture and design for both large and small-scale systems.

• Design, build and operate distributed software services for transaction processing.

• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and continuously integrated.

• Collaborate with Quality assurance team in test planning and test coverage.

• Collaborate with DevOps and CI/CD in operational visibility, triaging incidents, and deployment planning.

• A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment.

• Actively participate in growing and coaching fellow team members.

• Understand future business goals from Product Owners and make sure architecture and system design can support those goals.

• Build proof-of-concepts to validate architectural and design choices and evangelize those technical choices to other teams.

• Able to understand, diagnose and then solve deep technical and performance issues across the platform.

• Provide development support to resolve any issues with technical systems and applications.

Qualifications

• Software Engineering or related field education preferred or equivalent work experience.

• Strong understanding of backend development with Python.

• Experience in designing highly scalable, performant, and critical systems using OOPS and/or Functional programming.

• Strong in Test-Driven Development and proficiency in writing maintainable and adaptable code.

• Proficiency with SQL and Strong knowledge of one or more databases e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server.

• Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services

• Strong understanding of an Agile work environment and Agile SDLC.

• Good problem-solving and debugging skills and experience in monitoring, alerting and distributed tracing.

• Understanding of software engineering principles and best practices.

• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.

• A growing innovative company with a friendly atmosphere;

• Social Responsibility Initiatives;

• Creative, people-oriented, encouraging working environment;

• Personal budget for a year to raise professional competence;

• We also have our library, and anyone can order new books;

• Internal career development program “Bridge”;

• Cutting-edge technologies and tools;

• Office in the city center with parking for cars, bicycles, and scooters;

• The flexibility enables work-life balance;

• Private health insurance;

• Additional vacation days for each year spent with us;

• Solid salary and annual bonuses for the achieved results;

• NYSE: FOUR Restricted Stock Units award based on your seniority

• Employee referral program.

The salary range for this position is 5400-6700 EUR / gross. The exact salary will be determined based on the candidate’s experience.