Senior Software Engineer II (Python)

As a Senior Software Engineer and AI Enthusiast you will join the Marketplace Enablement this team were enabling AI-based searching matching and ranking of talent to job ads. You will join an international team of Data Scientsts Big Data Engineers ML Engineers and Cloud Engineers as a technical lead.
Your expertise will help create a more inclusive and efficient recruitment experience globally directly supporting our mission to reshape the labour market for everyone. You will have a strong sense of ownership and proactively provide solutions before a situation deteriorates.

• Lead from alignment with Product vision via solution design with our Staff Engineers to successful implementation and value creation.
• Champion code quality by applying best practices like clean code automated testing CI/CD observability security and Federated Governance.
• Work on a diverse set of technologies for LLM-deployments (e.g. Sagemaker with vLLM) streaming data solutions (Kafka) Data Lakes (AWS Glue) and complex orchestrations (Airflow) tasks.
• Collaborate and mentor in an international agile cross-functional team helping others grow and succeed.
• Contribute to building an inclusive team culture where every voice is valued.

Qualifications :

Your Skills & Qualifications

• Proven track record of deploying secure and robust systems at scale with a professional level of Python (7 years)
• Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English (B2 level).
• Genuine passion for leveraging data and AI to solve complex problems and make a tangible impact (professional experience is considered a plus).
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services (e.g. EMR Glue ECS with Docker Redshift DynamoDB S3) and understanding of cloud-native architectures (3 years).
• Solid experience with Apache Kafka (MSK) for real-time data ingestion and processing (1 years).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and Huggingface Transformers (considered a plus).
• We value different career paths if you have taken career breaks switched disciplines or balanced work with family life we still encourage you to apply.

If you dont meet every single requirement but are excited about this role we still would love to see you applying

Additional Information :

Your benefits 

Were a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when youre with us. Because your job shouldnt take over your life it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• 30 days of holidays 2 extra days for Christmas and New Years Eve 

• Hybrid working model 

• Company pension scheme 

• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme 

• Life Assurance Cover 

• Volunteering days 

• Job bike 

• Discounted parking or job ticket 

• In-house gym 

• In-house barista 

• And you can bring your dog to the office 

Our commitment 

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company so we want to recruit develop and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone regardless of background gender identity sexual orientation disability status ethnicity belief age family or parental status and any other characteristic. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time