Senior Django/FastAPI Developer
Senior Django/FastAPI Developer
Position Overview
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Design and implement scalable, maintainable Django and FastAPI applications following best practices.
- Conduct architecture-level reasoning to evaluate trade-offs between technical approaches.
- Lead technical design discussions and provide guidance on system architecture decisions.
- Review and refactor existing code to improve performance, maintainability, and scalability.
- Ensure consistency in coding standards, patterns, and conventions across Django and FastAPI codebases.
- Bridge traditional Django approaches with modern asynchronous FastAPI architecture.
Code Review & Quality Assurance
- Perform thorough code reviews with constructive feedback on design, performance, and security.
- Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices across the team.
- Identify potential issues early in the development cycle and propose preventive measures.
- Mentor junior developers through code reviews and pair programming.
- Champion test-driven development (TDD) and maintain high code coverage standards.
Development & Implementation
- Build robust RESTful APIs using Django REST Framework and FastAPI.
- Design and optimize database schemas using Django ORM and SQLAlchemy.
- Implement complex business logic while maintaining code readability and maintainability.
- Work with distributed systems and handle data synchronization challenges.
- Integrate with external APIs and third-party libraries.
- Leverage async/await patterns in FastAPI for high-performance endpoints.
Problem Solving & Innovation
- Analyze complex technical problems and devise effective solutions.
- Debug and resolve critical production issues with minimal supervision.
- Proactively identify and address technical debt.
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies for potential adoption.
- Optimize application performance using profiling, caching, and query optimization.
Required Qualifications
Technical Skills
- 5+ years of professional Python web development experience (Django and/or FastAPI).
- Expert-level proficiency in Python, Django ORM, and SQLAlchemy.
- Strong experience in API development using Django REST Framework and FastAPI.
- Deep understanding of database design, optimization, and performance tuning (PostgreSQL preferred).
- Proficiency with testing frameworks such as pytest (unit and integration tests).
- Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.
- Knowledge of asynchronous programming, Celery, Redis, and RabbitMQ.
- Understanding of web security best practices, OWASP principles, and JWT authentication.
- Experience using Pydantic for data validation and type safety.
Architecture & Design
- Proven experience designing and implementing microservices or distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean architecture concepts.
- Experience handling API versioning, backward compatibility, and deprecation strategies.
- Knowledge of caching strategies and performance optimization.
- Understanding of event-driven architectures and message queuing systems.
- Familiarity with dependency injection and repository patterns used in Django and FastAPI.
Soft Skills
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with a systematic approach to debugging.
- Strong communication skills to convey technical ideas to diverse stakeholders.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
- Leadership qualities and prior experience mentoring junior developers.
- Attention to detail and commitment to writing clean, well-documented code.
- Collaborative mindset with experience in agile/scrum environments.
Preferred Qualifications
Additional Technical Experience
- Experience with Django migrations and Alembic for schema evolution.
- Proficiency in both synchronous (WSGI) and asynchronous (ASGI) application architectures.
- Knowledge of BigQuery or similar data warehousing solutions.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized environments.
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline setup and automated deployment.
- Understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
- Exposure to TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (React preferred).
- Working knowledge of Uvicorn, Gunicorn, and similar Python application servers.
Domain Knowledge
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications and data synchronization patterns.
- Understanding of compliance, data privacy, and security regulations.
- Experience building analytics and reporting systems.
- Familiarity with feature flag management and rollout strategies.
- Experience transitioning or maintaining parallel Django and FastAPI systems.
