Education

B.S. (or advanced) degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience

Job Type

6 month contract with opportunity to become permanent upon contract completion.

Location

Calgary, AB

The successful candidate will be responsible for the build aiohttp microservices using Python 3.0.

Job Description

• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Write technical documentation
• Deliver impactful business results through the development and delivery of cutting-edge machine learning models
• Leverage Big Data tools and techniques in order to build innovative solutions using appropriate modelling techniques
• Assist in driving improvements to our current prediction modelling infrastructure in terms of process, performance and testing
• Work with large, complex data sets whilst solving challenging business problems
• Collaborate with internal business stakeholders, data scientists and engineers in order to identify improvement opportunities from an AI perspective
• Develop and contribute to existing Python code for processing high velocity real-time data streams using asynchronous programming techniques.
• Evaluate, debug, and optimize Python-based server codes supporting RESTful API data services
• Solve for complex data integrations across multiple systems.
• Analyze data and technical system problems to design and implement effective, flexible solutions
• Deal with large batch and real-time data
• Provide software solutions to technically challenging business requirements (complex transformations, complex class hierarchy, high data volumes)
• Assist in managing our cloud infrastructure, including understanding available services and how they could be used by developers to improve systems
• Perform incremental testing actions on code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline execution and minimize errors encountered

Back-End

• Expand upon existing components or develop new components to support additional functionality to include:
• Serverless RESTful APIs to support front-end calls
• Serverless RESTful APIs to support API-driven services for system-to-system usage
• Serverless event-driven microservices to execute automated functionalities
• Develop new features in support of the emulation platform
• Improve upon PostgreSQL database structure

Requirements

• B.S. (or advanced) degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience
• Understanding of key concepts behind Relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra) databases
• Experience with relational databases (i.e., PostgreSQL)
• Experience with cloud computing services (e.g., AWS or Azure)
• Experience with web servers (NodeJS, Apache or equivalent) an UI/UX design
• Proven experience in the following backend Technologies: Python (Tornado)
• Experienced with asyncio
• Experienced developing REST, GraphQL or gRPC based microservices
• Strong understanding of containerisation (preferably Kubernetes)
• Familiarity working with Docker and Kubernetes
• Well versed with Javascript and React
• Comfortable developing code to work with large data sets of multiple dimensions
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong communicator and team player
• Good organizational and documentation skills
• Familiarity with API development and associated methodologies
• Ability to use Git and work collaboratively with other developers
• Asynchronous programming skills
• Solid understanding of web architecture
• Experience with debugging tools and techniques
• Ability to integrate processes across disparate systems
• Ability to follow critical paths though software and network applications
• Ability to program under different constraints contributing to long-term strategic projects while also contributing to last-minute fixes and short-term solutions; sometimes without all information present to make comfortable decisions.
• Great attention to detail
• Hands-on experience with Linux environment
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, with little guidance

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