Sr Software Engineer, Python

Overview

Pennymac (NYSE: PFSI) is a specialty financial services firm with a comprehensive mortgage platform and integrated business focused on the production and servicing of U.S. mortgage loans and the management of investments related to the U.S. mortgage market.

At Pennymac, our people are the foundation of our success and at the heart of our dynamic work culture. Together, we work towards a unified goal of helping millions of Americans achieve aspirations of home ownership through the complete mortgage journey.

A Typical Day:
Responsible for providing strategic guidance, designs, and solution patterns to team members; serves as the chief architect for a sub-product or sub-products. Drives collaboration throughout the development life cycle, partnering with business analysts and customers to review and optimize requirements; and, working with developers to review and validate key functionality and integration. Responsible for ensuring feasibility of design and integration with existing systems and platforms.

• Expert level knowledge of Python 3, Object-Oriented Code & Design Patterns
• Strong Experience with Python frameworks (e.g. Fast API, Flask, Django)
• Strong Experience with REST APIs
• Strong Experience with Git
• Strong Experience Writing Unit Tests
• Experience with Event Driven Systems & Microservices
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and serverless
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Cloud Formation & CDK)
• Knowledge of Databases (SQL, No
  
  SQL)
• Knowledge of Dev Ops Practices (CI/CD, Automated Pipelines)
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Jira
• Attention to Detail
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to more junior engineers
• Self Starter (Able to work alone with minimal direction but also able to work within the team)
• Capable of owning technical design for projects of moderate complexity, and understands tradeoffs in creating good software
• Ability to understand the capabilities and limitations of existing software and demonstrate a preference to extend, reuse and integrate with them effectively while also improving them
• Demonstrated track record of making reasonable design tradeoffs between short term results and building for the long term
• Demonstrated ability to understand and actively participate in team s scrum activities and rituals as well as help others to understand and embrace them
• Demonstrates behaviors aligned with the organization’s desired culture and values

• Degree in computer science, engineering or similar major
• 5 years of experience with software development
• Deep understanding of and experience with modern Python (3.x)
• Demonstrated ability to master at least one major skill outside of core coding such as monitoring, documentation, security, integration testing, visual design, devops, or performance optimization
• Demonstrated track record of creating significant improvements across business-critical product ecosystems around stability, security, performance, and scalability
• Demonstrated ability to understand, facilitate or actively participate in multi-team or multi-sub-product scrum activities and rituals, help others to understand them
• Demonstrated ability to effectively convey complex technical topics to engineers, POs, PMs or nontechnical colleagues
• Able to collaborate across teams and build systems to address architectural gaps
• Capable of leading small to midsize epic level efforts
• Financial Services and, if possible, mortgage industry experience preferred
• Strong business acumen and ability to interface with executive management

As one of the top mortgage lenders in the country, Pennymac has helped over 4 million lifetime homeowners achieve and sustain their aspirations of home. Our vision is to be the most trusted partner for home. Together, 4,000 Pennymac team members across the country are guided by our core values: to be Accountable, Reliable and Ethical in all that we do.

Pennymac is committed to conducting a business that makes positive contributions and promotes long-term sustainable growth and to fostering an equitable and inclusive environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Paid Time Off Programs including vacation, holidays, illness, and parental leave
• Wellness Programs, Employee Recognition Programs, and onsite gyms and cafe style dining (select locations)
• Retirement benefits, life insurance, 401k match, and tuition reimbursement
• Philanthropy Programs including matching gifts, volunteer grants, charitable grants and corporate sponsor ships

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Individual salary may vary based on multiple factors including specific role, geographic location / market data, and skills and experience as defined below:

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