Senior Python Engineer

Job Overview

Shift4 is seeking a passionate and technically strong Senior Python Engineer to join our dynamic team in Vilnius, Lithuania. As a leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for businesses across various industries. We are looking for a software engineer who can understand technical requirements, design solutions, collaborate with stakeholders, and deliver technology services in a high-velocity, dynamic, "always on" environment.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-level requirements into actionable tasks and deliverables.
• Contribute to architecture and design for both large and small-scale systems.
• Design, build, and operate distributed software services for transaction processing.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and continuously integrated.
• Collaborate with the Quality Assurance team in test planning and test coverage.
• Work with DevOps and CI/CD teams in operational visibility, triaging incidents, and deployment planning.
• Maintain a disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team environment.
• Actively participate in growing and coaching fellow team members.
• Understand future business goals from Product Owners and ensure architecture and system design can support those goals.
• Build proof-of-concepts to validate architectural and design choices and evangelize those technical choices to other teams.
• Diagnose and solve deep technical and performance issues across the platform.
• Provide development support to resolve any issues with technical systems and applications.

Requirements

• A degree in Software Engineering or a related field is preferred, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of experience and strong skills in backend development with Python.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and best practices.
• Experience in developing highly scalable, performant, and critical systems using OOPS and/or Functional programming.
• Strong in Test-Driven Development and proficiency in writing maintainable and adaptable code.
• Proficiency with SQL and experience working on one or more databases, e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server.
• Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services.
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.
• Strong understanding of an Agile work environment and Agile SDLC.
• Ambitious and highly motivated to deliver outstanding solutions with minimal mentorship.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills and experience in monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing.
• Real passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Exposure to cloud technologies.
• Experience in the Tornado Python Web framework is a plus.

Benefits

• A growing innovative company with a friendly atmosphere.
• Social Responsibility Initiatives.
• Creative, people-oriented, encouraging working environment.
• Personal budget for a year to raise professional competence.
• Cutting-edge technologies and tools.
• Office in the city center with parking for cars, bicycles, and scooters.
• Private health insurance.
• Additional vacation days for each year spent with us.
• Solid salary and annual bonuses for the achieved results.
• NYSE: FOUR Restricted Stock Units award based on your seniority.
• Employee referral program.

Salary

The salary range for this position is 5500-7500 EUR gross per month. The exact salary will be determined based on the candidate’s experience.

Shift4 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.