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 worlds 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 funds 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.

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Responsibilities
- Build and develop a next-generation AI-powered financial assistant platform, extremely sophisticated tools, and collaborate with some of hedge funds most relevant investors we dont have a product for casual users, but instead, we have products that empower a handful of the worlds 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.