Python Fullstack Developer

S&P Global Dow Jones Indices

The Role: Senior Lead Development Engineer - Python Full Stack

Preferred Candidates: Mumbai

S&P Dow Jones Indices a global leader in providing investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets, is looking for a Senior Lead Development Engineer with full stack experience to join our technology team. As full stack engineer role, both front-end and back-end skills will be utilized.

The Team: You will be part of global technology team comprising of Dev, QA and BA teams and will be responsible for analysis, design, development and testing.

Responsibilities and Impact:  You will be working on one of the key systems that is responsible for calculating re-balancing weights and asset selections for S&P indices. Ultimately, the output of this team is used to maintain some of the most recognized and important investable assets globally.

• Design and development of RESTful web services and with closely with UI developers
• Interfacing with various AWS infrastructure and services, deploying to Containerization technology environment.
• Coding, Documentation, Testing, Debugging, Documentation and tier-3 support.
• Taking ownership of code modules and leading code review processes.
• Work directly with stakeholders and technical architect to formalize/document requirements for both supporting existing application as well as new initiatives.
• Perform Application & System Performance tuning and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Define and refine agile stories and task, delegate to team, conduct code reviews / pull requests.
• Coordinately closely with the QA team and the scrum master to optimize team velocity and task flow.
• Helps establish and maintain technical standards via code reviews and pull requests

Whats in it for you: This is an opportunity to work on a team of highly talented and motivated engineers at a highly respected company.  You will work on new development as well as enhancements to existing functionality. You will use your full range of skills as a full stack developer.

What Were Looking For:

Basic Qualifications:

• years of IT experience in application development and support.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience.
• Expert in modern Python minimum 5 years dedicated, recent Python experience).
• AWS services experience including API Gateway, ECS / Containerization technology, DynamoDB, S3, Distributed streaming platform, SQS.
• SQL database experience including proficiency on Postgres.
• Python libraries experience including Pandas, Numpy, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy.
• Demonstrated experience at creating RESTful endpoints in Python (Flask, FastAPI, Sanic).
• JavaScript and UI development experience including one of the following: (Vue 3, React, Angular)
• REST API testing experience with Postman or Bruno.
• Strong CI/CD build process experience using Jenkins.
• Backend services development including distributed libraries and packages in Python.
• Experience with software testing (unit testing, integration testing, test driven development).
• Strong Work Ethic, Communication and Thoughtfulness

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Good understanding of financial markets and investing (stocks, funds, indices, etc.)
• Experience working in mission-critical enterprise organizations
• A passion for creating high quality code and broad unit test coverage.
• Ability to understand complex business problems, break into smaller executable parts, and delegate.

About S&P Global Dow Jones Indices

At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. Were the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world. With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies.

S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the worlds foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the worlds leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit

What's In It For You?

Our Purpose:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We're committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We're constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.