Required Skills \& Experience
- 5+ years of professional Python development experience
- Strong experience with FastAPI or similar framework (Flask, Django REST)
- Deep understanding of REST API design principles
- Expertise in asynchronous programming with Python
- Solid experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Strong knowledge of API security best practices
- Experience with Docker and containerized environments like Openshift/Kubernetes
- Proficiency in writing unit tests and integration tests
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture and tools like Kafka
Nice to Have Skills \& Experience
- Knowledge of monitoring tools like Prometheus and OpenTelemtry
- Experience with microservice architectures
- Financial Services experience
Job Description Insight Global is seeking a highly skilled Python Engineer with over 4+ years of experience to join our team to help a strategic banking client in various data transformation activities.
This role will help support the vulnerability management platforms team. A successful candidate for this role would be an experienced and proactive python developer who can design and implement high-performance REST APIs using FastAPI.
Core responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable, maintainable and high-performing RESTful APIs using FastAPI, SQLModel and Redis
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable Python code
- Develop and maintain documentation
- Design and optimize database schemas and queries
- Create and maintain automated test suites
- Monitor and optimize API performance
Implement caching strategies and rate limiting
- Collaborate with front end team to ensure smooth API integration
- Assist in implementing workflows for detecting, archiving and purging stale data based on retention policies
- Ensure proper logging and auditing of data lifecycle processes
- Mentor junior developers and review code
- Collaborate with the system architect to refine the API logic, enhance query performance and implement caching strategies