Senior Python Backend API Engineer

Python Developer

<div><strong style="color: black;">Position: Python Developer</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Location: Fort Mill, SC/ NYC, NY</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Duration: Full-Time</strong></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong style="color: black;">ROLE SUMMARY</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Seeking a Senior Python Backend API Engineer with deep hands-on experience building and operating production-grade backend APIs.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">The candidate must demonstrate strong ownership, technical depth, and independent execution capability.</span></div><div><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">MANDATORY SCREENING CRITERIA (ALL REQUIRED)</strong></div><div><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">1. Core Python Backend Expertise</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">• 5+ years of hands-on Python backend development</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Designed and implemented REST APIs from scratch</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Strong experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django REST Framework</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Must be currently writing production Python code</span></div><div><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">2. API Design &amp; Security</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">• </strong><span style="color: black;">REST principles: resource modeling, versioning, idempotency</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Authentication &amp; authorization: JWT, OAuth2, API keys</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Error handling, logging, and observability</span></div><div><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">3. Database &amp; Data Handling</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">• </strong><span style="color: black;">Strong experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Schema design, indexing, query optimization</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Transactions and data integrity</span></div><div><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">4. Engineering Discipline</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">• </strong><span style="color: black;">Clean, maintainable, testable code</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Unit and integration testing</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Independent debugging of production issues</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Refactoring legacy or poorly structured codebases</span></div><div><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">NICE-TO-HAVE (STRONG ADVANTAGE)</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">• AWS or cloud exposure (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM)</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Docker (required if Kubernetes is mentioned)</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">• Async Python, background jobs, or message queues</span></div><div><br></div>