Developer, Backend Developer, Software Development

Overview

Python Senior Developer with strong AWS cloud expertise to design, develop, and support scalable, cloud-native applications, APIs, and data solutions. This role combines deep Python development skills with hands-on experience building distributed systems on AWS. Ownership of the full software lifecycle—from solution design and implementation to production support and operational excellence—is required.

• Python Development & API Engineering
  • Design, develop, and maintain Python-based backend applications, microservices, and APIs.
  • Build scalable RESTful APIs and integrations supporting enterprise applications and data platforms.
  • Develop reusable components, libraries, and automation frameworks following engineering best practices.
  • Implement secure API authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and monitoring capabilities.
• Data Engineering & Processing
  • Build and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and processing pipelines.
  • Develop solutions for integrating data across multiple internal and external systems.
  • Optimize data access patterns, database interactions, and application performance.
  • Ensure data quality, validation, observability, and operational reliability.
• AWS Cloud Engineering
  • Design and implement cloud-native solutions using AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, SNS, Event Bridge, Cloud Watch, and Step Functions.
  • Develop highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications leveraging AWS best practices.
  • Implement infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational controls.
  • Collaborate with cloud, security, and platform teams to ensure compliance, governance, and cost optimization.
• Production Support & Reliability
  • Support business-critical production systems and APIs in a high-availability environment.
  • Perform incident triage, root cause analysis, and issue remediation.
  • Analyze logs, metrics, and system behavior to identify performance bottlenecks and reliability risks.
  • Drive continuous improvements in resiliency, observability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• AI-Assisted Software Development
  • Leverage AI-powered development tools to accelerate development and improve code quality.
  • Utilize AI for code generation, unit test creation, documentation, troubleshooting, code reviews, and solution prototyping.
  • Validate AI-generated outputs to ensure alignment with security, architectural, and engineering standards.
  • Promote responsible adoption of AI-assisted development practices within the engineering team.
• Technical Leadership
  • Mentor junior developers and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.
  • Participate in architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and code reviews.
  • Partner with product, business, architecture, and operations teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• 8+ years of hands-on Python development experience.
• Strong experience building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Solid experience designing and implementing solutions on AWS.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, and enterprise integrations.
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Experience supporting production systems in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Proficiency with SQL and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and observability practices.

• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS.
• Experience with AWS serverless and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, CDK).
• Experience in financial services, insurance, or other regulated enterprise environments.
• Prior experience as a Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, or Solution Designer.

Salary Range: $85,000-$125,000 per year