
Job Title: Freelance Python Team Lead & Developer (Hyderabad-based)
Project Overview
We are a service-based IT firm seeking a Senior Python Developer (3–5 years experience) for a long-term freelance engagement. This is a unique "Player-Coach" role where you will balance high-level individual coding with the leadership of a junior intern team.
Logistics & Commitment
- Location: In-office (Hyderabad). Candidates must be local.
- Time Commitment: 3–4 hours per day, 5 days a week (approx. 20 hours/week).
- Duration: Ongoing freelance contract.
Core Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of interns. You will be responsible for task delegation, technical guidance, and conducting rigorous code reviews to ensure production-quality output.
- Individual Contribution: Act as the lead developer for complex backend modules, API architecture, and system integrations using Python (Django/FastAPI).
- Delivery Management: Ensure that the intern team meets project milestones and adheres to clean coding standards (PEP 8).
Requirements
- 3–5 years of professional experience in Python development.
- Proven experience in a service-based company environment.
- Strong proficiency in Django, Flask, or FastAPI and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Excellent communication skills with a natural ability to mentor and explain technical logic to juniors.
- Availability to work from our Hyderabad office during standard business hours.
Please include your resume and a brief summary of your experience leading teams or mentoring juniors.

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5 years of hands-on experience in using Python, Spark,Sql.
Experienced in AWS Cloud usage and management.
Experience with Databricks (Lakehouse, ML, Unity Catalog, MLflow).
Experience using various ML models and frameworks such as XGBoost, Lightgbm, Torch.
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Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
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- Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product
- Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
- Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
- Mentor and provide feedback to teammates
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- Deep and wide knowledge of Python ecosystem
- Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
- Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
- Good intuition for REST API design
- Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
- Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
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Interfaces with other processes and/or business functions to ensure they can leverage the
benefits provided by the AWS Platform process
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Hands-on python experience
Manages the entire AWS platform(Python, Flask, RESTAPI, serverless framework) and
recommend those that best meet the organization's requirements
Has a good understanding of the various AWS services, particularly: S3, Athena, Python code,
Glue, Lambda, Cloud Formation, and other AWS serverless resources.
AWS Certification is Plus
Knowledge of best practices for IT operations in an always-on, always-available service model
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Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems or relevant experience and
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3 to 6 years of experience in the IT field
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Strong AWS skills including Data Pipeline, S3, RDS, Redshift with familiarity with other components
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Python relevant exp 3 years
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Good knowledge on SDLC.
Hands on AWS Databases, (RDS, etc)
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Job Details
JOB TITLE/JOB CODE: AWS Python Develop[er, III-Sr. Analyst
RC: TBD
PREFERRED LOCATION: HYDERABAD, IND
POSITION REPORTS TO: Manager USI T&I Cloud Managed Platform
CAREER LEVEL: 3
Work Location:
Hyderabad
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- Create Technical Design for AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, NLU, NLG projects and implement the same in production.
- Solid understanding and experience of deep learning architectures and algorithms
- Working experience with AWS, most importantly AWS SageMaker, Aurora or MongoDB, Analytics and reporting.
- Experience solving problems in the industry using deep learning methods such as recurrent neural networks (RNN, LSTM), convolutional neural nets, auto-encoders, etc.
- Should have experience of 2-3 production implementations of machine learning projects.
- Knowledge of open-source libraries such as Keras, Tensor Flow, Pytorch
- Work with business analysts/consultants and other necessary teams to create a strong solution
- Should have in-depth understanding and experience of Data Science and Machine Learning projects using Python, R, etc. Skills in Java/C are a plus
- Should developing solutions using python in AI/ML projects
- Should be able to train and build a team of technical developers
- Desired to have experience as leads in designing and developing applications/tools using Microsoft technologies - ASP.Net, C#, HTML5, MVC
- Desired to have knowledge on any of the cloud solutions such as Azure or AWS
- Desired to have knowledge on any of container technology such as Docker
- Should be able to build strong relationships with project stakeholders
Keywords:
- Python
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- AWS
- Django
- NLP
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- Prior experience in Python is a good to have but the developer should be willing to do development in Python.
- The developer is expected to collaborate with developers from other teams as well as business stakeholders in India and in US to design and develop business requirements.






