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.
