Team Leader (Python)

Job description

RedCore is an international business group that creates technological solutions for digital markets. Our products and services cover fintech, marketing, e-commerce, customer service, communications, and regulatory technologies.

We are looking for a Team Leader (Python)!

Requirements:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field;

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering;

- 2+ years of team management experience;

- Strong proficiency in Python, with experience with other programming languages;

- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms;

- Strong knowledge of concurrency, parallelism, and related concepts;

- Experience with back-end frameworks (FastAPI);

- Expertise in object-oriented programming and SOLID principles;

- Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture;

- Proficiency in version control systems, particularly Git;

- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices;

- Strong understanding of database systems (both SQL and NoSQL);

- Experience with AWS services, cloud architecture, and Serverless development;

- Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes);

- Testing and quality mindset; understanding Test Pyramid methodology and different Test Categories;

- Understanding of Observability (structured logging, metrics, traces, OpenTelemetry) and Reliability (circuit breakers, backoff, idempotency)

Will be a plus:

- Practical AI app experience: implementing RAG pipelines (chunking, indexing, retrieval, re-ranking) with vector stores (e.g., pgvector, Qdrant, Pinecone) and framework glue (LlamaIndex, LangChain, pydantic_ai or any similar);

- Integrating LLM providers via API (prompt/function-calling/tool use), with guardrails, caching, retries, and fallbacks.

- Familiarity with MLOps tools and practices (deepeval, prompts versioning, etc.);

- Experience with message brokers (e.g., NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ);

- Familiarity with graph databases and algorithms;

- Understanding of gambling or gaming industry technology stacks

Responsibilities:

- Take ownership of team projects, including delivery coordination, technical quality, risks, dependencies, and day-to-day execution;

- Plan and coordinate team work considering priorities, developer availability, vacations, sick leaves, and backup ownership;

- Ensure delivered solutions follow agreed architecture and clarify unclear technical decisions with the Architect / DTO / stakeholders;

- Be responsible for quality, consistency, maintainability, and production readiness of solutions delivered in code;

- Lead code reviews and improve engineering practices across testing, observability, documentation, reliability, and security;

- Develop and maintain robust, scalable backend applications and services that integrate AI models and AI-powered workflows;

- Design and implement efficient APIs, orchestration services, integrations, and data processing components;

- Collaborate closely with Architect, AI team, product, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver practical AI solutions;

- Troubleshoot, debug, optimize, and upgrade existing systems;

- Support and mentor developers through technical guidance, 1:1 meetings, knowledge sharing, and development planning;

- Identify knowledge gaps, reduce single points of failure, and organize knowledge sharing across team projects;

- Promote practical AI Engineering adoption in the team, including AI-assisted development, testing, documentation, debugging, and review workflows;

- Ensure AI-assisted work improves delivery speed without reducing code quality, security, or maintainability;

- Write and maintain technical documentation, diagrams, README files, and operational notes where needed;

- Stay updated with emerging backend, cloud, and AI Engineering practices and apply them where practical

Our benefits to you:

🍀 An exciting and challenging job in a fast-growing business group, the opportunity to be part of a multicultural team of top professionals in Development, Architecture, Management, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and more

🤝🏻 Great working atmosphere with passionate experts and leaders, sharing a friendly culture and a success-driven mindset is guaranteed

🧑🏻💻 Modern corporate equipment based on macOS or Windows, and additional equipment is provided

🏖️ Paid vacations, sick leave, personal events days, days off

💵 Referral program — enjoy cooperation with your colleagues and get a bonus

📚 Educational programs: regular internal training sessions, compensation for external education, attendance of specialized global conferences

🎯 Rewards program for mentoring and coaching colleagues

✈️ In-house Travel Service

🦄 Multiple internal activities: online platform for employees with quests, gamification, presents and news, clubs for movie/book/pets lovers, and more

🎳 Other benefits could be added based on your location