Principal Python Engineer

Are you an open-minded and dedicated professional who revels in intellectually rigorous environments? Do you hold a high bar for the quality of your code and react to a mission critical problem in an excellent way? Can you anticipate complications and formulate solutions to unblock the progress of the project? If it sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM as a Principal Python Engineer.
Our client is one of the world’s biggest hedge funds managing investments for a wide array of institutional clients, from charitable foundations to foreign governments and central banks. In this role, you will oversee a newly established back-end team developing an oversight platform for managing all of hedge fund’s trade generation activity. You will interact with team members who deeply understand product & business problems and investors who are also technically savvy and work in deep partnership with engineers.
Our Product Team is looking for very senior developers to join the team to build a next-generation AI-powered financial assistant platform. We will be rapidly iterating with our business users to test, refine, and deploy chat, reporting, and bespoke interfaces into their investment workflows. Specifically, we are looking for senior engineers who will help us bring AI-powered financial assistance to a handful of our clients.

**Responsibilities**:
Build and develop a next-generation AI-powered financial assistant platform, extremely sophisticated tools, and collaborate with some of hedge fund’s most relevant investors - we don’t have a product for casual users, but instead, we have products that empower a handful of the world’s sharpest and most engaging minds
Work together with a small team of hands-on engineers, where everyone is incredibly competent in their respective area
Collaborate and interact with non-technical clients and users
Work with cutting-edge technologies, no legacy
Shape and influence product directly
**Requirements**:
Strong computer science fundamentals with a mastery of back-end development
7+ years of professional software development experience in technically rigorous environments
Python, React (TS), or other programming languages with 5+ years of hands-on experience
Experience with FastAPI (or other Python framework strongly desired), AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
High autonomy and self-governance. You will be given tasks with a very high-level definition, and be expected to gather low-lever requirements, consider edge cases, produce a system design and an actual implementation
Readiness to work in a startup environment and willingness to learn new languages as new technologies emerge and the team adapts during development
A high bar for quality and reliability
Nice to have
Experience with FE - TS/JS, ReactJS/Next.js/Node.js
Strong AI/ML knowledge
We offer
Private health insurance
EPAM Employees Stock Purchase Plan
100% paid sick leave
Referral Program
Professional certification
Language courses
EPAM is a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company with over 52,650 EPAMers in more than 55 countries and regions. Since 1993, our multidisciplinary teams have been helping make the future real for our clients and communities around the world. In 2018, we opened an office in Spain that quickly grew to over 1,450 EPAMers distributed between the offices in Málaga and Madrid as well as remotely across the country. Here you will collaborate with multinational teams, contribute to numerous innovative projects, and have an opportunity to learn and grow continuously.
Why Join EPAM
WORK AND LIFE BALANCE. Enjoy more of your personal time with flexible work options, 24 working days of annual leave and paid time off for numerous public holidays.
CONTINUOUS LEARNING CULTURE. Craft your personal Career Development Plan to align with your learning objectives. Take advantage of internal training, mentorship, sponsored certifications and LinkedIn courses.
CLEAR AND DIFFERENT CAREER PATHS. Grow in engineering or managerial direction to become a People Manager, in-depth technical specialist, Solution Architect, or Project/Delivery Manager.
STRONG PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY. Join a global EPAM community of highly skilled experts and connect with them to solve challenges, exchange ideas, share expertise and make friends.