The Value Maximizer
Python Developer
The Value MaximizerUnited States2 days ago
Full-timeOther
Position: Python DeveloperLocation: Fort Mill, SC/ NYC, NYDuration: Full-Time ROLE SUMMARYSeeking 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

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