Full Stack Developer (Python), Vice President

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Lead Python Full Stack Developer to design, build, and lead the development of modern, scalable web applications using Python-based microservices and React-based micro frontends.

The ideal candidate will be a strong hands-on technical lead with deep experience in Python, Django, FastAPI, REST APIs, React, microservices, cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, automated testing, and enterprise software engineering practices.

This role requires both technical leadership and hands-on development. The Lead Developer will own application technical design, establish coding standards, guide developers, perform daily code and pull-request reviews, oversee CI/CD and deployments, support testing and production releases, and ensure that applications meet enterprise standards for quality, security, performance, maintainability, and auditability.

Role Objectives

Lead the technical design and development of enterprise-grade Python full stack applications.

Design scalable and reusable microservices architectures using Python frameworks such as Django, Django REST, FAST API, FLASK..etc.

Define clear boundaries between APIs, business services, orchestration components, persistence layers, and frontend applications.

Design and build RESTful APIs and service-to-service integrations.

Establish reusable application frameworks, common libraries, API standards, error-handling patterns, logging standards, and development conventions.

Prepare and maintain Technical Design Documents (TDDs), architecture diagrams, API specifications, data-flow diagrams, deployment designs, and implementation documentation.

Participate in architecture and technical design reviews and ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture and security standards.

Build secure APIs for business functionality, data processing, workflow orchestration, and external system integrations.

Implement authentication, authorization, role-based access control, input validation, exception handling, structured logging, and audit trails.

Design asynchronous and background-processing patterns where required.

Develop integration patterns for relational databases, APIs, messaging platforms, and cloud services.

Lead development of modern web applications using React, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Design modular and reusable micro frontend architectures.

Establish reusable React components, hooks, shared libraries, UI patterns, and frontend coding standards.

Integrate React applications with Python-based REST APIs and microservices.

Own or actively contribute to application CI/CD pipelines and release processes.

Partner with DevOps teams to automate build, test, security scanning, packaging, and deployment activities.

Work with technologies such as GitHub/GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes/AKS, or equivalent enterprise platforms.

Qualifications and Skills

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Establish reusable React components, hooks, shared libraries, UI patterns, and frontend coding standards.

Advanced Python development experience

Strong experience with Django

Strong experience with FastAPI

Experience with Django REST Framework

Knowledge of Flask or similar Python frameworks

REST API and microservices architecture

Authentication and authorization patterns

ORM and database integration

Asynchronous/background processing concepts

API versioning and exception-handling patterns

Unit and integration testing using tools such as Pytest

Strong React development experience

TypeScript / JavaScript

HTML5 / CSS

Component-based frontend architecture

React Hooks

State-management patterns

REST API integration

Micro frontend architecture

Frontend testing using tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, or equivalent

SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.