Development Engineer 3-Python

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Job Summary

This job involves collaborative design and development of software solutions that meet business objectives. It includes system requirement analysis, application customization, and assisting with software updates. It also involves mentoring junior engineers, ensuring quality with Quality Assurance, and providing technical leadership on routine projects. The job is also responsible for conducting training for application users.

Job Description

Development Engineer -3(Python)

Job Description:

Understand the big picture and lead the development of Python applications as documented in the design and ensure they run efficiently with solid unit testing and exceptional handling.

Be an active member of design review, validate user stories and assess the feasibility on conceptual ideas against the practicality of implementing them. Create Data Models and interact with Databases.

Create, maintain, update, and enhance applications that have been written within the team using Docker, GIT, Quality gates, linting and other tools to develop, test and deploy code quickly and efficiently.

Drive best practice and drive development with local and distributed colleagues, share and document best practices.

Perform code peer review and provide constructive criticism (optimizations or adherence to best practices). Ensure code quality standards are maintained high and code get merged with less or fewer comments.

Guide and propose solutions to implement best practices so that a scalable product is produced.

Fast learner and somebody that is always growing and refining their skills. You will be a natural problem solver with a cool head, that can deal with ambiguity and work autonomously and as a team to deliver results Active member in a Scrum team and follow Agile methodology to deliver features in sprints and support quality assurance teams by feature handover and bug fixes. Able to drive Scrum ceremonies as required.

Skills for various specialties:

Must Have Skills:

Python 3 utilizing OOP design with database integration (MySQL, Mongo) direct and/or via ORM Solid experience with caching & scheduling (e.g. Redis & celery) and ability to work with concurrency, multithreading / multitasking and IPC.

Good knowledge of common data structures and algorithms and when to use them and their implementations. Experience with python xml library's including DOM navigation and Json data structures including JSON path, XML and YAML.

Good hands on with software version control (especially git). Ability to work with a large repo where fast paced development occurs. Good communication skills.  A strong ability to explain your logic and challenge the logic of others. Ability to both read, understand and build programmatic flow eg sequence diagrams Good Experience with OpenAPI and able to implement ‘self-documenting’ REST API's Strong experience in automated unit and integration testing. Good Experience in working in an agile environment such as Scrum including agile ticketing systems such as Jira

Good to Have:

Accredited CCNA/CCNP level of networking experience. Good understanding of CRUD operations using Netconf, CLI and SNMP and data modelling with help of YANG Good understanding of templating tools like JINJA.

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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

5-7 Years

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