Python Developer (Airlines)

Appex Innovation•Chicago, IL

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are hiring a Python Developer for a 6-month contract position in Chicago, IL. This role is within the Airlines industry and involves designing, developing, documenting, testing, and debugging software systems. The developer will serve as a technical expert on development projects, participating in the full development life cycle from requirements analysis to design and support. Responsibilities include writing technical specifications, supporting and maintaining software functionality, identifying and evaluating new technologies, analyzing code for errors, and consulting with end-users to refine and debug programs. The role requires working CST hours and preference will be given to local candidates, though remote work is possible.

Requirements

Over 8 years in Python leveraging pandas, boto3
Development experience on AWS platform
Containerization tool: Docker
Environments: Linux, WINDOWS
Version Control: GIT
Agile development
Observability tools like CloudWatch, Dynatrace, DataDog
CI/CD and devOps pipelines and related process

Nice To Haves

Databases: MySQL, RDS, Redshift, Iceberg
Experience in Automation

Responsibilities

Leads, Designs, implements, deploys, supports, and optimizes backend services.
Support a large-scale enterprise solutions and applications using AWS services.
Analyze and interpret complex data and related systems and provide efficient technical solutions.
Develop and maintain standards to codes and maintain an effective project life cycle on all processes.
Coordinate with cross functional teams like architects, platform engineers, other developers and business to build processing procedures.
Perform root cause analysis on production issues and perform routine monitoring on and provide support to environments.
Help create functional specifications, technical designs and working with business process area owners.
Implement industry best practices code and configuration for production and non-production environments in an highly automated environment.
Provides technical advice, effort estimate, impact analysis.
Provides timely project status and issue reporting to management.