Senior Python Developer Python, Blockchain

What are we doing?

As a pioneer for digital transformation GFT develops sustainable solutions across new technologies - from cloud engineering and artificial intelligence to blockchain/DLT. With its deep technological expertise, strong partnerships, and comprehensive market know-how GFT offers advice to the financial and insurance sectors, as well as in the manufacturing industry. Through the intelligent use of IT solutions GFT increases productivity and creates added value for clients. Companies gain easy and safe access to scalable IT-applications and innovative business models.

Who are we?

Having started in Germany in 1987, GFT Technologies has grown to become a trusted Software Engineering and Consulting specialist for the international financial industry, counting many of the world's largest and best-known Banks as our clients. We are an organization that empowers you to not only explore but raise your potential and seek out opportunities that add value. At GFT, diversity, equality, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive working environment for all communities is one of the main pillars of our diversity strategy, based on our core values and culture. We have been certified for 2022/23 as a 'Great place to work' in the APAC region. So, if you want to have the opportunity to work with an outstanding and progressive organization this position could be right for you.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Understand the smart contract, CI/CD pipeline, deployment process
• Understand business requirements and convert that into Thought machine smart contract designs
• Understand business flow in Core banking and can discuss with Business on Finance, Credit card, Ops requirements
• Support business features during development, UAT testing and Production. Able to triage issues in smart contract (missing posting, schedules issues, incorrect interest calculation etc.)
• Solid experience in Python back-end development
• Following Agile software delivery framework
• In client-facing integration, implementation engineering, or solution architecture roles, in B2B software product companies
• Analyzing and validating business requirements, translating them into technical specifications/requirements.
• Evaluating core platform changes versus client-specific requests.
• Implementing Vault workflows and Python smart contract code from client requirements (Software Engineering).
• Collaborating with engineering, obtaining a deep technical understanding of Vault and associated roadmap.
• Coordinating impact and requirements across projects. Supporting client staging and development instances.
• Understanding, investigating, resolving client technical queries. Prioritizing and managing backlog and sprint planning.
• Conducting post mortems and defect management on technical issues.
• Participating in testing, release cycles, and QA processes relating to client deployments.

Required Education & Experience:

• Strong Python, Python Core experience.
• Deep understanding of Smart contract hooks, Core APIs, Streaming APIs, Smart contract version upgrade, which at least 2 years hand-on experiences.
• Plan management, Schedule management, Unit testing in Python, understanding of CI/CD process.
• Practical knowledge of testing principles - unit, integration, and e2e testing
• Understanding of CQRS pattern
• Practical knowledge with Git flow, Trunk, and GitHub flow branching strategies
• Familiar with DevOps toolchain experience: GitHub, CircleCI, Artifactory, SonarQube, et al.
• Nice to have - understanding of retail banking and accounting (eg. double-entry bookkeeping) principles
• Nice to have - understanding of how Blockchain works
• Having experiences with projects in financial institutions, digital banks, or fintech

HR benefits

• Competitive salary
• Salary band per level are reviewed once per year
• 13th month salary pro rata depending on the employee's length of service (within a calender year), paid with the December salary
• Monthly lunch allowance: 700,000 VND/employee
• Parking: GFT covers the monthly parking fee for employee motorbikes
• Performance evaluation is once per year, for 2 purposes:
  > Performance bonus > Salary increments

Health care

• Private health insurance: including accident, outpatient, in-patient, maternity, and dental for all permanent employees who pass 2-month probation.
• Optical: expense claim for eyewear
• Annual health check-ups.

Vacation

• Maximum 18-day vacation leave/year (with the ability to carry over 05 days till 31st March of the following year)
• Adding one more annual leave day for each two-year anniversary.

Healthy lifestyle

• Sports and hobby clubs: company has an annual fund for fitness activities, which is allocated per month as team's vote.
• Range of healthy snacks, tea, coffee, milk and beer on tap

Social

• Company townhall: each 6 weeks
• CSR activities: as per company's CSR guideline
• Onsite tour/training courses at other GFT offices and client's destination overseas (where applicable).