Job description
As our Python Developer you’ll play a very important role in developing Colmore’s leading platform, Stride. Stride is our marketing leading platform that is a machine learning solution to automate and enhance the way we collect, extract and analyse unstructured data. You’ll be responsible for building and improving the algorithms within Stride, enabling the business to capture and report data quicker and more accurately resulting in a unique service to our customers.
This position suits a developer who holds a BSc in Software Engineering or Computer Science, with commercial experience in software engineering.
You will have good knowledge of software engineering best practices and be passionate about working within a high performing engineering team that promotes knowledge, sharing and development best practices.
About Colmore
Colmore, a Preqin company, is a market-leading, technology-driven private markets investor services business focused on the Limited Partner and Allocator market. The business operates from four offices located in New York and Dallas in the US, and London and Birmingham in the UK. Colmore employs more than 270 professionals, with the business monitoring over 5,500 private market funds and 40,000+ holdings.
In this role you will:
- Become a team player within a high performing division: contribute to our culture, invent new ways to address industry needs, criticize constructively, and help create a world class engineering organization.
- Support all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (requirements gathering, development, testing, deployment, support).
- You’ll build new and develop existing algorithms within our platform in Python, using Pandas as the open-source library.
- Creating design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Build RESTful APIs.
- You’ll execute code reviews in a timely and efficient manner.
You are a good fit if you have:
- The successful candidate will need to be highly efficient at coding in Python with the ability to develop and build new algorithms in our platform.
- Experience of working within a Pandas open-source library is also essential in this role.
- You thrive within an agile environment that is fast-paced and continuously evolving.
- You will have studied a BSc in Software Engineering or a STEM equivalent qualification.
- You ‘re a forward-thinking individual who’s innovative and support creating a high-performing culture by challenging and championing others.
- 25 days Annual Leave and 8 Public/Bank Holidays – pro rata for part-time employees
- Group Pension Scheme – matched pension contribution scheme, minimum contribution 5%, maximum company contribution is 10% of your annual salary.
- Private medical insurance, health cash plans, will writing and employee assistance program
- Group life insurance (4x annual salary)
- Business & personal travel insurance
- Anniversary Awards and other awards program
- Employee Referral Program
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Company funded social budget
- Study support
Our culture and values are:
Be Customer obsessed
We exist for our customers. We listen to them and understand their challenges. We design best-in-class data solutions for their success.
Act with integrity
We build trust through honesty and transparency. We’re committed to doing the right thing for our customers, our company, and each other.
Own your success
We’re a high-performance team. We challenge and champion each other in our pursuit of excellence. We never stop learning and strive to become experts in our fields
Think forward
We lead the industry through innovation. We foster collaboration and creativity to solve our clients’ next challenge and give them a competitive advantage.
Make an impact
We drive positive change as individuals, and as a company. We’re passionate about creating a better tomorrow for our industry and our communities.
Training and Development:
Colmore offers comprehensive technical and leadership training to all Analysts. Our initial training is provided in the first few weeks of joining us and provides you with up-to-date technical and industry knowledge, coupled with leadership and people management skills. At Colmore we want to grow with our employees by helping to fully develop their talents and abilities. Employees are encouraged to study for appropriate professional qualifications and to attend course that enable them to perform their job more effectively.
Equal Opportunities at Colmore:
The Company is an equal opportunities employer, and we actively promote an environment that harnesses diversity in the workplace. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions.