Python Developer

Position : Python Developer Location : Fort Mill, SC / NYC, NY Duration : Full-Time   ROLE SUMMARY Seeking a Senior Python Backend API Engineer with deep hands-on experience building and operating production-grade backend APIs. The candidate must demonstrate strong ownership, technical depth, and independent execution capability. MANDATORY SCREENING CRITERIA (ALL REQUIRED) 1. Core Python Backend Expertise

• 5+ years of hands-on Python backend development
• Designed and implemented REST APIs from scratch
• Strong experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django REST Framework
• Must be currently writing production Python code 2. API Design & Security
• REST principles : resource modeling, versioning, idempotency
• Authentication & authorization : JWT, OAuth2, API keys
• Error handling, logging, and observability 3. Database & Data Handling
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Schema design, indexing, query optimization
• Transactions and data integrity 4. Engineering Discipline
• Clean, maintainable, testable code
• Unit and integration testing
• Independent debugging of production issues
• Refactoring legacy or poorly structured codebases NICE-TO-HAVE (STRONG ADVANTAGE)
• AWS or cloud exposure (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM)
• Docker (required if Kubernetes is mentioned)
• Kubernetes, CI / CD pipelines
• Async Python, background jobs, or message queues