Position: Python Developer
Location: Fort Mill, SC/ NYC, NY
Duration: Full-Time
ROLE SUMMARY
Seeking a Senior Python Backend API Engineer with deep hands-on experience building and operating production-grade backend APIs.The candidate must demonstrate strong ownership, technical depth, and independent execution capability.
MANDATORY SCREENING CRITERIA (ALL REQUIRED)
1. Core Python Backend Expertise
5+ years of hands-on Python backend development
Designed and implemented REST APIs from scratch
Strong experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django REST Framework
Must be currently writing production Python code2. API Design \& Security
REST principles: resource modeling, versioning, idempotency
Authentication \& authorization: JWT, OAuth2, API keys
Error handling, logging, and observability3. Database \& Data Handling
Strong experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
Schema design, indexing, query optimization
Transactions and data integrity4. Engineering Discipline
Clean, maintainable, testable code
Unit and integration testing
Independent debugging of production issues
Refactoring legacy or poorly structured codebasesNICE-TO-HAVE (STRONG ADVANTAGE)
AWS or cloud exposure (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM)
Docker (required if Kubernetes is mentioned)
Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
Async Python, background jobs, or message queues