
Principal Engineer (Python)
at FinTech product company from UK,


Your Responsibilities:
- Own the backend stack – Python based, that powers our product
- Collaborate with Data Scientists, Backend Developers(Node.js), Front-end developers, DevOps to design and implement new features
- Build and maintain several Backend Jobs and REST’ful Services which will be used internally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.
- Deploy and monitor the Jobs and endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X data processing load)
- Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.
Skills that you bring Along:
- A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Python and related frameworks – particularly Flask.
- Extensive experience in designing and scheduling backend Python jobs
- Hands on working in different file formats like Json, Parquet, csv etc. coming from Data Science side.
- Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.
- Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.
- Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache
- Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures
- Good experience with design patterns
- Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL
- Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design
- Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)
- Good experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints
- Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Ideally experience in parallel data processing and building end-to-end Data Pipelines using tools such as Airflow/Prefect and Spark/Dask
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner

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Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team (or operate as a hands-on technical lead).
- Drive the design and development of scalable backend services using Python.
- Experience in Django, FastAPI, Task Orchestration Systems.
- Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, ensuring fast, safe, and reliable deployments.
- Architect and manage infrastructure using AWS and Terraform with a DevOps-first mindset.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and compliance experts to deliver features that make tax compliance seamless for our users.
- Set and enforce engineering best practices, code quality standards, and operational excellence.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advocate for continuous improvement in engineering processes.
- Experience in fintech, tax, or compliance industries.
- Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Background in security, observability, or compliance automation.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or principal-level role.
- Deep expertise in Python, including API development, performance optimization, and testing.
- Experience in Event-driven architecture, Kafka/RabbitMQ-like systems.
- Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch).
- Solid understanding of Terraform for infrastructure as code.
- Proficiency with Jenkins or similar CI/CD tooling.
- Comfortable balancing technical leadership with hands-on coding and problem-solving.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.


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- High level of knowledge of Python and the Django framework.
- Familiarity with event driven programming as well as the MVC.
- Good understanding of SQL databases.
- Good understanding of REST APIs.


Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and efficient Python applications
- Lead technical projects from conception to deployment
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement new features
- Write clean, testable code with appropriate documentation
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to their professional growth
- Participate in technical architecture discussions and decision-making
- Troubleshoot and debug complex software issues
- Contribute to continuous improvement of development practices and processes
- Design and implement AI/ML solutions using LLMs and related technologies
- Optimize and maintain AI model deployment pipelines
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and its ecosystem (Django/Flask, FastAPI)
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Solid understanding of software design patterns and principles
- Experience with version control systems (Git)
- Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
- Proficiency in writing unit tests and understanding of TDD practices
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
AI/ML Technical Skills
- Experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex)
- Knowledge of working with large language models (GPT, Claude, etc.)
- Understanding of prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning concepts
- Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar)
- Familiarity with AI model deployment and serving (BentoML, Ray Serve)
- Experience with machine learning libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar)
- Knowledge of AI/ML observability and monitoring tools
- Understanding of AI safety practices and responsible AI development
- Experience with embedding models and semantic search implementations
- Familiarity with AI application development patterns and best practices


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- Experience in using celery
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- Strong SQL skills
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- Experience in integrating ML models in Django or Flask is a plus
- Experience with AWS services like S3, API gateway, SES, SQS, SNS, Aurora, Dynamo is plus
- Knowledge of lambda and cloudformation are plus
- Knowledge of React is plus
Working with TechWeirdo be like:
- Surrounded by curious learners: With a Growth Mindset as our core strength, we created a learning environment with curious tech learners.
- New challenges every day: There is no ordinary day at TechWeirdo, if you like solving problems, then this is the right place for you.
- Zero micro-management, limited supervision: We encourage our team to take on challenging tasks and solve complex problems by taking ownership of their tasks. We trust our team to take calculated risks.
- Great networking: You will be connected with c-suite executives of top organizations while working with our winning team.
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- Are familiar with Docker, Kubernetes
- It would be awesome if you are also familiar with DICOM, DCM4CHEE, HL7
- Are familiar with Jira, Asana, and Slack
- Knowledge of Go templating, common frameworks, and tools
- Believe that the future of healthcare lies in the power of AI and analytics
- Thrive in a chaotic, fast-moving, and ambiguous work environment


Fulfil’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions of customer orders are fulfilled by merchants. Our products need to handle information at massive scale. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas into our technology.
As a senior software engineer, you will work on our python based ORM and applications that scales to handle millions of transactions every hour. This is mission critical software and your primary focus will be building robust and scalable solutions that are easy to maintain.
In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the rest of the team working on different layers of infrastructure in an international environment. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product are important.
What You’ll Do:
- Own definition and implementation of API interfaces (REST and GraphQL). We take pride in our 100% open API with over 600 endpoints.
- Implement simple solutions to complex business logic that enables our merchants to manage financials, orders and shipments across millions of transactions.
- Build reusable components and packages for future use.
- Translate specs and user stories into reviewable, test covered patches.
- Peer review code and refactor existing code.
- Integrate with our eCommerce partners (Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon), shipping partners (UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL) and EDI.
- Manage Kubernetes and Docker based global deployment of our infrastructure.
Requirements We’re Looking for Someone With:
- Experience working with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django (2-3 years)
- Experience with SQL and databases (Postgres preferred)
- Experience in developing large server side applications and microservices
- Ability to create high quality code
- Experience with python testing tools (pytest) and test automation
- Familiarity with code versioning tools like GIT
- Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality
- Experienced in the tools of our web stack- Python, Celery, Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ
Nice to Haves:
- Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software company
- Experience with ReactJS, Google Cloud, Heroku
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DATAKYND seeks a Python Developer who can collaborate with our front end developers and designers to meet multiple project needs for our clients. We seek team player that can think beyond the code to provide recommendations and solutions focused on meeting client’s needs.
Responsibilities:
- Full-stack development
- Develop data migration, conversion, cleansing, retrieval tools and processes (ETL) using pandas
- Web Automation, Web crawlers and scrapers
- Data import/export formats for third-party applications (JSON/CSV)
- Integrations with third-party applications (REST API)
- Requirements analysis and providing solutions using Python and related tools.
- Supporting and maintaining existing Python scripts, applications and interfaces.
- Evaluating emerging open-source libraries and providing recommendations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills is necessary
Primary Technical and Functional Skills:
- Python 3.x , Web frameworks (Django, Flask)
- JS, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL
- Multithreading, Logging, Email, Schedulers
- Third-party integration, Rest APIs and microservice
- JSON/CSV
Secondary Technical and Functional Skills:
- Basics of Linux, Nginx, Gunicorn, Apache, Wsgi
- Github , Docker
- Cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS
- Design and workflow document preparation
Desired profile:
- Should have excellent verbal and written communication skill


You will get to own and build world-class, stable, secure and scalable solutions
Ownership, trust and flexibility comes with the job and you are expected to consistently raise the bar in terms of technical proficiency and quality of code.
You will get to work with a highly experienced team in a very informal, yet results-oriented environment
You should think consumer-first and have the ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
You will actively participate in defining stable and scalable engineering processes to meet the demands of a fast growing team.
3+ years hands-on application development experience in Python, Django, Flask & NodeJS
Highly proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases and Redis.
Should have a strong hands-on working knowledge on AWS services like EC2, S3, Route53, SES, SQS, SNS etc.
Should have successfully built and deployed complex and resource efficient backend APIs that work flawlessly at scale
Should be willing to take on responsibility and ownership and should be highly motivated and fun to work with :)
Experience in working at fast-paced startups is a big plus!
If you have the knowledge, experience and hunger to make a positive impact, we’d love to meet you.





