Python Developer

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Primary Skills:

Python, Django, AWS, SQL OR NoSQL

Responsibilities

• Microservice Development: Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code for our microservices architecture.
• API Design & Implementation: Develop and maintain clean, well-documented, and versioned RESTful APIs that will be consumed by our frontend and other services.
• AWS Cloud Services: Leverage a wide range of AWS services to build and deploy your applications. This includes using services like Lambda for serverless functions, S3 for storage, RDS/DynamoDB for data persistence, and SQS/SNS for asynchronous communication.
• Database Management: Design and optimize database schemas, write efficient queries, and manage data persistence layers using both SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL on RDS) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB) databases.
• Code Quality & Testing: Write comprehensive unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and reliability. Participate actively in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to your peers.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Collaborate with the DevOps team to define infrastructure requirements using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Performance & Scalability: Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. Ensure that our backend services are designed to scale efficiently as user load increases.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of professional backend development experience, with a strong emphasis on building services in Python.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and its ecosystem.
• Proven, hands-on experience with Python web frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Strong, demonstrable experience with the AWS cloud platform. You must have experience with core services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, and IAM.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and experience building and deploying distributed systems.
• Proficiency with both SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB) databases.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes (EKS) is a significant plus.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation is highly desirable.