Senior/Expert Python Software Engineer

About the role:

As an Expert Python Developer, become a part of a cross-functional development team working an exceptionally exciting client who are the leading enterprise AI SaaS company for digital transformation in the biopharmaceutical industry. 

Responsibilities: 

• Design and implement complex backend features from conception through to deployment, ensuring they meet strategic business objectives;
• Write clean, secure, highly testable. scalable and well-documented code that adheres to coding standards and best practices;
• Perform comprehensive code reviews to ensure high code quality and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team;
• Actively participate in multiple aspects of the SDLC, including planning, development, testing, and deployment;
• Assist in upholding and enhancing the team`s engineering and quality standards, and support team in adopting these;
• Engage in the technical interviewing process.

Requirements:

• Experience in software development for more than 5 years with Python for Senior, 7+ years for Expert;
• Profound knowledge of Python frameworks such as: FastAPI (will be a big plus), Flask and in-depth knowledge of their internal architecture; 
• Practical commercial experience in REST API developing of distributed systems (e.g. microservices, SOA);
• Knowledge of techniques for working with asyncio and related libraries (projects use aiohttp / tornado);
• Excellent knowledge of paradigms and principles: OOP, SOLID, and GRASP, Architectural and Design Patterns, Security principles and Code testing practices;
• Understanding of network interactions: protocols, REST convention, auth standards and practices (oAuth 2.0, JWT);
• Deep understanding of RDBMS systems (PostgreSQL), experience crafting high-performance queries, db optimizations, and designing db structures;
• Deep knowledge and practical experience with SQLAlchemy (sync and async mode in declarative and table-oriented syntax);
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps will be a plus);
• Experience in deploying and managing apps in the public cloud (Azure will be a plus);
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes;
• Advanced proficiency with unittest, pytest, mock and other common testing tools;
• Experience with troubleshooting, profiling and debugging of applications, refactoring process, Agile software development processes and technologies;
• Fluent / Upper-Intermediate English. 

Desirable: 

• Participation in Data and AI products development process Azure ecosystem knowledge;
• Experience with Sentry and ELK stack;
• Flyte / Apache Airflow / NiFi / Luigy production experience and usage for ETL processes;
• Experience with messaging systems (RabbitMQ);
• Azure ecosystem knowledge;
• Deep knowledge alembic;
• Understanding db migration process and data migration problems;
• Python code and SQL requests profiling and optimization experience;
• Work with Sentry, New Relic, Raygun;
• Pydantic and SQLModel deep knowledgeDescription.