Principal Engineer (Python)

Your Responsibilities:

Own the backend stack – Python based, that powers our product

Collaborate with Data Scientists, Backend Developers(Node.js), Front-end developers, DevOps to design and implement new features

Build and maintain several Backend Jobs and REST’ful Services which will be used internally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.

Deploy and monitor the Jobs and endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X data processing load)

Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.

Skills that you bring Along:

A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Python and related frameworks – particularly Flask.

Extensive experience in designing and scheduling backend Python jobs

Hands on working in different file formats like Json, Parquet, csv etc. coming from Data Science side.

Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.

Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.

Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache

Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures

Good experience with design patterns

Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL

Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design

Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)

Good experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints

Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform

Ideally experience in parallel data processing and building end-to-end Data Pipelines using tools such as Airflow/Prefect and Spark/Dask

Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner