Software Engineer - Python Junior+ [Risks Scoring]

Location: Worldwide

Department: HQ

Risks Scoring
Risks Scoring is the team responsible for the automated decision-making behind every Plata product.
We integrate data from multiple sources, ship scoring models to production, and serve real-time credit decisions under strict SLAs — for credit cards, cash loans, POS lending and debit products across several countries.

Challenges that await you: 

• Implementation of scoring features, policy rules and strategies that make real-time decisions on clients in production
• Maintenance and development of an existing high-load Python service and its data contracts
• Ensuring high implementation quality through comprehensive test coverage
• Validating every change against real production traffic before it goes live
• Rapid incident response: tracing a decision through logs and restoring correct behaviour quickly

What makes you a great fit:

• 1+ year of Python experience (internship, own projects or commercial work all count)
• Solid Python fundamentals: OOP, dataclasses, standard library
• Confident with type hints and static type checking
• Basic experience with pydantic: declaring models and validating incoming data
• Docker and an understanding of containerization
• Practical testing experience with pytest: unit and integration tests, parametrized cases, mocking a dependency
• Comfortable with Git and working in a team branch/MR flow
• Basic SQL and ability to read someone else's code before writing your own
• Proactivity: raising blockers early, asking questions instead of guessing, following existing conventions
• B1 or higher English level for effective communication with an international team

Your bonus skills:

• gRPC / Protobuf
• Kubernetes and Helm
• CI/CD pipelines, GitLab CI in particular
• Kafka, Pub/Sub or any other message broker and event-driven communication
• Interest in MLOps and an understanding of how ML models get to production and are kept there

Our ways of working:

• Innovative Spirit: A commitment to creativity and groundbreaking solutions
• Honest Feedback: valuing open, transparent communication
• Supportive Team: a strong, collaborative community
• Celebrating Achievements: recognizing our wins together
• High-Tech Environment: a team full of smart and revolutionary people who date to challenge the status quo of incumbent finances

Our benefits:

• Relocation support to one of our hubs — Cyprus, Serbia, or Kazakhstan — with assistance for the employee and their family
• Flexible work from one of our offices or remote
• Healthcare Coverage
• Education Budget: Language lessons, professional training and certifications
• Wellness Budget: Mental health and fitness activity reimbursements
• Vacation policy: 20 days of annual leave and paid sick leave