Job Description

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

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