Senior Python Engineer, FXC Intelligence
Specialist provider of global payments data
Open for applications
Specialist provider of global payments data
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
FXC Intelligence's mission is to break the mould for industry standard global payments data.
Role
Who you are
- Engineer robust solutions using advanced Python and SQL to solve complex data and backend challenges
- Work with data processing and distributed high-load systems
- Experience with event-driven architecture and message queues (RabbitMQ/Kafka)
- Perform basic exploratory data analysis and make technical decisions on the basis of observed data rather than just assumptions
- Take proactive ownership of projects, setting a high bar for technical excellence
- Thrive in fast-paced environments, pivoting quickly to meet changing priorities without losing momentum
- Articulate complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Deep-dive into the business domain to ensure your technical output aligns with product goals and user needs
- Approach every challenge with a positive attitude and a proactive drive to learn new technologies and methodologies
Desirable
- Prior experience working for a data product company or being involved with Big Data
- Build and maintain scalable web scraping architectures and backend systems that power core product features
- Experience with documentation of system architecture
- Experience collaborating with a BI, DA and/or ML team
What the job involves
- Typical hours are Monday-Friday working UTC/UTC+1 with potential on-call support required
- We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer to join our Data Ingest team, responsible for scraping the data that fuels our products
- You’ll play a key role in shaping how we capture, process and scale the data pipelines that underpin our insights to some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations
- What success looks like in this role:
- Carrying out research and technical investigations
- Implementing new scrapers and maintaining existing ones
- Improve the scraping platform in the areas of data quality, performance and observability
- Taking on ownership of architectural or conceptual components of the platform (e.g. owning reliability or QA processes or AI scrapers)
- Gain sufficient understanding of the codebase to be able to make contributions aimed at reducing overall complexity and removing technical debt
- Performing code reviews, participating in intra and cross-team technical initiatives and discussions
- You will join a technical team of c. 40 technologists with a key purpose of continuously and reliably collecting large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then processing the data, checking the quality and serving it to our users so that they can make the best business decisions
- Tech Stack: Python, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, Pandas, Numpy and SKlearn
Our take
FXC Intelligence is the self-proclaimed 'industry standard' for cross-border payments data. It focuses on creating and developing high grade datasets, which give businesses in the card and international payments sector access to deep, predictive analysis. Its services are used by clients ranging from banks to regulators - all of whom need access to quality data in what can otherwise be a hugely opaque market.
For its clients, the perks of signing up are clear. FXC Intelligence's services give clients the ability to enhance their decision-making processes, prepare better for changes in the market, and build new, improved products. It is no surprise, then, that big industry names like Lloyds Bank and Ripple are already onboard. And, with its reputation having been boosted by the likes of Forbes and the Economist running publications based on its data, FXC Intelligence could be looking at even greater demand in future.
Furthermore, FXC Intelligence now has the ability to capitalise on a growing number of financial institutions looking to establish themselves in a new digital era. If FXC Intelligence can continue its run of current successes, as well as harnessing this potential increase in demand, it has great prospects moving forward.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
75% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- Receive a 20% annual bonus and share options
- A brand new Mac or PC it's your choice!
- 5% Workplace pension scheme contribution
- Professional/Career coaching sessions with an external coach
- Perkbox subscription for exclusive deals and discounts
- AXA private healthcare for employee and spouse/partner and/or children
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Daniel Webber
(Founder & CEO)A first-class economics graduate from the University of Cambridge, Daniel was previously Director at SuperVision Media and The Rival Group.
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