Lead Python Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • San Diego, CA

20h • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Lead Python Engineer to design, build, and continuously enhance enterprise-grade applications, data-intensive services, and automation platforms. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on delivering robust, secure, high-performance Python systems that operate reliably in distributed and mission-critical production environments. The engineer will apply Python expertise alongside software architecture, data engineering, and operational support fundamentals, partnering with product, data, and infrastructure teams to turn business problems into technical solutions. The role also involves identifying root causes of complex issues and raising engineering standards across the team.

The position is full-time, direct W2, and 100% remote within the United States. The listed annual salary range is $750,000–$95,000. Candidates may include U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates; the company is unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of applied Python development experience in enterprise-grade environments.
• Strong experience building and maintaining large-scale production applications with significant uptime and reliability requirements.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Sybase, including query tuning and schema design.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, build, test, release, and ongoing support.
• Proven hands-on experience across system design, application development, automated testing, and operational support.
• Strong working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and computational efficiency, and ability to make sound design trade-offs.
• Demonstrated experience debugging and maintaining complex enterprise-level applications in production.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, application resiliency patterns, and secure coding standards.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in dynamic, fast-changing environments while keeping stakeholders informed.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience collaborating with technical and business teams.
• At least six years of experience is stated in the posting’s position details; the required qualifications specify five or more years of applied Python development experience.

Nice To Haves

• Strong shell scripting skills in UNIX/Linux environments and comfort with command-line tooling.
• Grounding in mathematical and statistical concepts and ability to translate them into code.
• Hands-on experience with Python data and machine learning tools, including NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.
• Working exposure to AWS cloud services and cloud-native storage technologies such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and Glue.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and continuously enhance enterprise-grade applications, data-intensive services, and automation platforms.
• Deliver robust, secure, and high-performance Python systems for distributed and mission-critical production environments.
• Partner with product, data, and infrastructure teams to translate business problems into technical solutions.
• Identify root causes of complex issues and proactively raise engineering standards across the team.
• Contribute hands-on across system design, application development, automated testing, and operational support.
• Debug and maintain complex enterprise-level applications in production.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and keep stakeholders informed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior