Python Web Developer at Quicken Loans, Detroit, MI

A Python Web Developer has at least 2 years of professional experience building python applications for embedded or web-based projects. Experience with Pylons is a plus. The Python Web Developer will work on a project by project basis with every level of the team. Primarily responsible for building quality, testable code in an iterative environment as well as ongoing maintenance and improvement of existing code. 

 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

-       Deliver accurate estimates, provide regular feedback and consistently meet project deadlines

-       Quickly understand requirements and build out initial code with tests

-       Take existing code and modify as required

-       Participate in Design and Code Reviews

-       Understand and help enhance the existing development processes

-       Basic Server Administration tasks 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

-       Applied experience in a team environment using Python.

-       Solid understanding of supporting libraries (PIL, PyMongo, Python-MySQL, etc)

-       Solid understanding of supporting tools (GIT, FTP, vi, etc)

-       Collaborative development experience; Able to explain complex ideas and concepts to non-        technical team members;

-       Superb attention to detail

-       Must welcome and embrace challenges, focusing on coming up with solutions and options to solve these challenges

-       Team-oriented experience highly desired

-       Excellent oral and written communication skills regardless of audience

 

Nice to Have:

-       Photoshop and/or design experience

-       Amazon Web Services experience

-       Unix administration experience

 

Minimum Education/Experience Requirements:

-       Established portfolio of work and/or code samples