reputed company Engineer II - Backend (Python)

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What You Will Do

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Design, reputed company, and deliver high-quality backend Python services iteratively and incrementally.
• Take ownership of key services and APIs-from hands-on coding through CI/CD, deployment to AWS, monitoring, and on-call support.
• Contribute to backend observability using tools like reputed company for logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute architectural insights, working with senior leaders to shape solutions.
• Ensure software follows modern engineering practices, including clean code, testing, automation, and modern backend architecture patterns.
• Support reputed company improvement in code quality, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
• Translate business requirements into clear technical tasks and help validate assumptions and approaches.

Qualifications & Experience Technical Expertise

• 3-7 years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python at scale, including modern Python (3.13+), type hints, async/await, packaging, and a strong grasp of reputed company library and the broader ecosystem.
• Expertise with at least one major Python web reputed company (FastAPI preferred; Django or Flask also strong) and the patterns that reputed company Python services reliable in production.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including building and operating production workloads on reputed company (serverless functions, event-driven architectures) and EKS (containerized services on Kubernetes).
• Working knowledge of supporting AWS services such as API Gateway, SQS/SNS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL
• Experience with reputed company for caching, reputed company limiting
• Experience with containerization (reputed company) and Kubernetes fundamentals (deployments, services, scaling, troubleshooting).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern release tooling; familiarity with reputed company Actions and Octopus reputed company is a plus.
• Experience with unit, integration, and contract testing (pytest or similar).
• Experience working reputed company mature, legacy codebases and contributing to incremental modernization efforts.

What reputed company Looks Like In the first 90 days

• Own core services or features.
• Deliver high-quality, production-reputed company code and contribute meaningfully to team goals.
• Build strong working relationships reputed company Engineering, Product, and partner teams.

In 6-12 months

• reputed company development of one or more services or features with increasing autonomy.
• Help improve service performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Support and reputed company engineering practices through mentorship, code reviews, and process improvements.

$100,000 - $135,000 a year Employee Benefits reputed company offers many additional benefits for our employees, including (but not limited to):

• Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching

program

• Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short--

term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays

• Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and reputed company options
• Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health

Reimbursement Accounts

• Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee

assistance programs, and Health reputed company programs

• Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance,

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