Senior Python Data Engineer - (Remote)

Position Title: Senior Python Data Engineer - (Remote) 

Entity: KBRA Holdings LLC

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Remote (Remote only in CA, CO, DC, FL, IL, MD, NJ, MA, NY, PA, SC, TX, VA)

Summary/Overview:

KBRA (KBRA Holdings, LLC) is seeking an engaged and proactive Senior Python Data Engineer to work on our financial analytical system. We want someone who loves solving difficult problems, digs deeply to understand the domain in which they’re working, and excels at creating high-quality software in a collaborative environment.

About the Team:

We believe that small, empowered teams can do amazing things. Across the engineering organization, we work hard to make the best systems for our customers using modern engineering practices. We are intentional in our investments in time and effort around creating a safe and successful workplace for our team members. We understand software engineering goes beyond the 1’s and 0’s and prioritize concrete value for our customers.

About the Job:
This role involves joining an existing team with a well-defined product vision. This team operates collaboratively, and there is an expectation to get involved in all aspects of design, delivery, and support of our systems.
This role emphasizes collaboration with our technical and non-technical counterparts to learn our domain and its unique challenges, while delivering value to our customers. It also requires collaboration with our other engineering, design, product, and platform teams to develop, build, run, and support the system.

About You:
You will be successful in this role if you:

• Develop, test, and maintain scalable Python applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software.
• Write clean, efficient, and reusable code following best practices.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge with the team.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in a timely manner.
• Contribute to the design and architecture of new features and systems.
• Have a sense of ownership and craftsmanship around the code base and your work.
• Enjoy helping other developers grow and learn new technologies.
• Display a strong track record of mentorship with engineers at various levels.
• Are mindful of application security and performance.
• Take pride in learning, and want opportunities to learn throughout your day-to-day.
• Possess a pragmatic mindset. 
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT for research, data insights, and general productivity is a plus.

Must have skills:

• 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong portfolio of full stack development work.
• Proficiency in Python, including experience with web frameworks such as Flask.
• Cloud experience, particularly with AWS (Amazon Web Services).
• Experience integrating frontend applications with RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Relational and non-relational databases (SQL Server, Snowflake and MongoDB).
• Debugging, issue resolution, and troubleshooting.

Nice to have skills:

• Familiarity with UX design tools (Figma) and solid understanding of the design-engineering hand-off process
• Containerized development and deployment (i.e. Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Familiarity with deployment pipelines, CICD tools.
• Exposure to financial systems or credit modeling is strongly preferred.

Salary Range:

The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 - $160,000. Offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience, skills, geography, and other job-related factors.

Benefits:

• Competitive benefits and paid time off
• Paid family and disability leave
• 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
• Educational and professional development financial assistance
• Employee referral bonus program

About Us:

KBRA is a full-service credit rating agency registered in the U.S., the EU and the UK, and is designated to provide structured finance ratings in Canada. KBRA’s ratings can be used by investors for regulatory capital purposes in multiple jurisdictions.

More Info:

KBRA encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, and veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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