Python Developer Lead

Position: Technical Lead – Python

About the Role

Mandatory Requirements Minimum 12+ years of IT experience, with strong expertise in Python, RESTful APIs, and RDBMS. Proven leadership capability with excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and a strong sense of ownership and accountability. Ability to take end-to-end responsibility for technical design, delivery, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead and work closely with the development team to deliver commitments smoothly and predictably.
• Perform technical impact analysis and contribute to accurate effort estimation and planning.
• Own the technical design and solutioning for backend systems and integrations.
• Actively promote and adopt AI-aided development and optimization practices (code generation, reviews, test creation, performance tuning).
• Proactively identify and address:
• Security vulnerabilities
• Code quality issues
• Engineering metrics (coverage, performance, reliability)
• Conduct code reviews, guide refactoring discussions, and ensure high-quality deliverables across teams.
• Drive root cause analysis for complex production issues, identify permanent fixes, and prevent recurrence.
• Perform feasibility studies to ensure solutions leverage modern and relevant technologies.
• Develop tools, services, and applications by producing clean, efficient, and maintainable Python code.
• Collaborate across domains and delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment and technical consistency.
• Take initiative in continuous improvement of engineering practices, frameworks, and team productivity.
• Demonstrate the ability to learn new technologies quickly and stay up to date with industry trends.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of overall IT experience, with 5+ years focused on designing and developing backend/web applications using Python.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in Python backend frameworks such as Django, Flask, FastAPI, or equivalent.
• Solid experience in API-first design, implementation, and optimization of RESTful services.
• Deep understanding of middleware architecture, backend services, and system integrations.
• Hands-on experience in database schema design, implementation, and tuning using RDBMS such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Strong proficiency in:
• Writing complex SQL queries
• Stored procedures, indexes, and performance optimization
• Transaction handling and data consistency
• Experience with ORM frameworks (Django ORM, SQLAlchemy, etc.) and awareness of their performance trade-offs.
• Solid coding skills with the ability to:
• Drive large-scale refactoring initiatives
• Improve coding standards, testing discipline, and maintainability across large codebases
• Experience building cloud-native services, with strong understanding of:
• Scalability
• Performance
• Security
• Reliability
• Exposure to frontend technologies (Angular or similar) for effective backend frontend collaboration.
• Experience with unit testing and TDD/BDD practices using tools such as PyTest, unittest, or similar.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including:
• Coding standards
• Code reviews
• Version control (Git)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Deployment and operations
• Knowledge of AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar cloud services is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Linux environments is a plus.