Lead Python Engineer

Job description

We are looking for a talented and driven Lead Python Engineer to lead a team of skilled developers in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable microservices and APIs for our Digital Health Platform. You will play a crucial role in fostering team collaboration, driving technical excellence, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

- Own team's solutions end-to-end: from requirements analysis through deployment and production support

- Be fully accountable for quality, performance, and reliability of all team deliverables

- Foster ownership culture where team members take responsibility for their work quality

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 5-7 Python developers with strong ownership mindset

- Ensure solutions meet all requirements before deployment and proactively resolve production issues

- Manage workload distribution and ensure balanced team capacity

- Define and enforce platform standards and best practices for the Digital Health Platform

- Oversee microservices architecture, inter-service communication, and API contract design

- Lead API-first development ensuring OpenAPI specs are source of truth with consistent auto-generated models

- Conduct thorough code reviews ensuring quality, consistency, and adherence to standards

- Stay current with industry trends and evaluate new technologies

- Break down requirements into actionable tasks and ensure team understands them from inception

- Hands-on contribution: design and implement scalable microservices and RESTful APIs using Python 3.12 and FastAPI

- Create and review OpenAPI specifications as source of truth, implementing APIs with auto-generated models

- Oversee Azure deployments using Kubernetes and Docker with CI/CD via GitHub Actions

- Ensure robust testing practices, including API contract testing with pytest

- Lead API contract discussions ensuring alignment across all consuming teams

- Translate business requirements into technical solutions and OpenAPI specifications

- Proactively manage technical risks, dependencies, and team workload in fast-paced environment

Requirements

- 5+ years of experience in Python development

- At least 1 year of relevant leadership experience

- Proven expertise in FastAPI, Pydantic, and Uvicorn

- Experience with deployment on Azure using Kubernetes and Docker

- Skills in building CI/CD pipelines leveraging GitHub Actions

- Proficiency in designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices architecture

- Flexibility to use tools ensuring high code quality, such as ruff and mypy

- Competency in scaling and optimizing system reliability, scalability, and performance

- Showcase of hands-on leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with cross-functional teams

- Understanding of balancing delivery speed with quality and technical excellence

- Expertise in breaking down requirements into actionable tasks and ensuring alignment with team capacity

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (B2+ level)

Nice to have

- Familiarity with OpenAPI Specification (OAS)

- Qualifications in pytest for API contract testing

- Knowledge of type checking using mypy