Software Engineer - Python (12 month fixed term)

There is a place for you at T. Rowe Price to grow, contribute, learn, and make a difference. We are a premier asset manager focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on today and in the future. The work we do matters. We invite you to explore the opportunity to join us and grow your career with us. Overview This is a hands-on role. You will analyse domain, design, code, test (automated testing: unit tests, integration tests, E2E tests; manual acceptance tests), review code, maintain the CI/CD, release, debug and support the application in production, and own the delivery of exciting and complex capabilities end to end. You will be part of a highly effective engineering team, building a portfolio management platform. You will be responsible for:

• Primarily the backend, including the databases, data pipelines and the ETL process
• Practising disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing beautiful, pragmatic code)
• Coding in Python
• Using internal tooling to manage services running in AWS

• Integrating with RESTful APIs
• Unit testing, integration testing, contributing to maintaining and constantly improving the CI/CD pipeline
• Designing data models and coding against databases (both RDS and document)
• Code reviews, design reviews
• Code instrumentation, setting up proactive monitoring dashboards and alerts
• Analysing metrics in order to optimize the processes and implementation
• A share of release management and platform support
• Liaising with users and subject matter experts in order to gather requirements, analyse solutions and triage feedback and incidents
• Understanding business requirements and translating them into technical requirements

Required skills and expertise:

• Extensive experience in Python
• Experience with Data Pipelines, ETL processes
• Experience with RDBMS (Postgres)
• Experience of distributed and cloud computing

Preferred experience/skills

• Experience in Apache Airflow
• Experience with DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering
• Experience in AWS (ECS, EC2, RDS, SNS/SQS)
• Experience in JavaScript, NodeJS
• Experience with frontend technologies, e.g. React/Redux
• An understanding of the asset management business and/or financial markets
• An understanding of basic user experience principles
• Familiarity with statistics

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: We strive for equity, equality, and opportunity for all associates. When we embrace the power of diversity and create an environment where people can bring their authentic and best selves to work, our firm is stronger, and we create greater value for our clients. Our commitment and inclusive programming aim to lift the experience for each associate and builds allies for our global associate community. We know that a sense of belonging is key not only to your success at the firm, but also to your ability to bring your best each day. T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought, gender, and race. We believe our continued success depends upon the equal treatment of all associates and applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, colour, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by country, federal, state, or local law.