Software Engineer - Python Junior+ [Risks Scoring]

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