Python Engineer

Python Developer x2

12+ month contract

100% REMOTE

Experian

Required Skills:

• The manager is looking for 2 Senior Level, Hands-on Python Engineers, who can Develop from scratch.
• These are true Python application programmer needs.
• The manager does not want to see candidates who are data engineers building pipelines, he only wants to see hands-on Senior Software Engineers.

Additional Skills From the Manager:

• "The candidates I have has passed on have mostly been stronger with data pipeline development & scripting with Python, rather than true core Python Software engineering.
• CLient is building an orchestration engine that helps build real-time offers for customers on loans and other financial offerings.
• We don't need any database interaction for this team, so the entirety of the position is middle-tier, application layer processing.
• There is no batch processing required for this position.
• I understand that a lot of Python Developers do data pipeline work as part of their job, as I used to do it too.
• But for this time I just want candidates to be more focused on core software engineering concepts like multithreading, asynchronous programming, IO, etc."

Role Summary

• Design & build backend components of MLOps platform on AWS.
• Collaborate with geographically distributed cross-functional teams.
• Participate in on-call rotation with the rest of the team to handle production incidents.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Python Programming

• AWS Services

• Flask

• Spark Programming knowledge (Pyspark/Scala)

• Async Programming

• boto3

Must Have

Skills:



• Must have 5 to 9 years of working experience in Python programming with flask, FastAPI

• Experience working with WSGI & ASGI web servers such as Gunicorn, Uvicorn etc.

• Experience with concurrent programming designs such as Async

IO.

• Experience with unit and functional testing frameworks.

• Experience with any of the public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, preferably AWS.

• Experience with CI/CD practices, tools, and frameworks.

• Should be a team player working with Cross Geography team

Nice to have skills:

• Experience with Apache Kafka and developing Kafka client applications in Python.

• Experience with MLOps platforms such as AWS Sagemaker, Kubeflow or MLflow.

• Experience with big data processing frameworks, preferably Apache Spark.

• Experience with container platforms such as AWS ECS or AWS EKS.

• Experience with Dev Ops & IAC tools such as Terraform, Jenkins etc.

• Experience with various Python packaging options such as Wheel, PEX or Conda.