Senior Python Engineer - API

We are looking for a talented Python Engineer who will lead the architectural decision-making and strategy for software products. The successful candidate will be responsible for overall vision, strategy and execution of the company’s Software products. This is a remote role and we are flexible with considering applications from anywhere in East Europe.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance in Python development, API architecture, and big data solutions.
• Software Development: Design, development, and deployment of robust Python-based applications and services, with a focus on efficiency, scalability, and maintainability.
• Digital Transformation: Be part of a digital transformation initiatives by re-engineering and improving existing software solutions, leveraging modern technologies and best practices.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, sales, security & data intelligence, to identify requirements, define solutions, and deliver value-added services.
• Mentorship & Training: Mentor junior engineers, conduct technical training sessions, and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the engineering team.
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Documentation: Create architecture diagrams and technical documentation.
• Best practices: Ensure architectural integrity in accordance with best practices and software design principles from conception to implementation.

Required:

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in Python development.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL and data warehouse solutions such as Clickhouse or SnowFlake.
• Proven track record of being part of digital transformation initiatives and re-engineering existing software solutions.
• Proven track record of designing, implementing, and optimizing API services.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail and a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Extensive understanding of architectural styles and design patterns.
• Experience with deploying complex applications on cloud platforms using a container orchestration platform, such as Kubernetes.
• Understand the tradeoffs of performance, compute, and memory and simultaneously optimize for all three.
• Track record of working on hard problems including job scheduling, concurrency, and scaling.
• You want to work on building things the “right” way to make sure our technical foundation is solid as we build on top of it over the coming years.
• Independent and self-driven.