Python Developer

Qode • South Carolina, SC

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About The Position

Seeking 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.

Requirements

• 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 code
• REST principles: resource modeling, versioning, idempotency
• Authentication & authorization: JWT, OAuth2, API keys
• Error handling, logging, and observability
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Schema design, indexing, query optimization
• Transactions and data integrity
• Clean, maintainable, testable code
• Unit and integration testing
• Independent debugging of production issues
• Refactoring legacy or poorly structured codebases

Nice To Haves

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed