Lead Python Backend Developer

Job Description:

• We are looking for an expert backend developer who is highly skilled with Python.
• Primary focus will be developing user-facing web applications components and maintaining / developing various Python Pipelines, HPC Operations, Bash Scripting, Dash development, following generally accepted practices and workflows.
• Ensuring that you produce robust, secure, modular, and maintainable code.
• You will coordinate with other team members, including Data scientists and backend engineers.
• Your commitment to team collaboration, perfect communication, and a quality product is crucial.
• The person should be able to communicate & act as a lead for the offshore team & can act as a single point of contact for resolving offshore team doubts.

Qualifications and Skills:

• B Tech, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or similar.
• 5-10 years of strong hands-on experience in Python,
• Should have a knowledge of Docker, Google Cloud.
• Should have a knowledge of Shell scripting. (Bash)
• Should have a knowledge of HPC operations,
• Familiar with Dash development.
• Good communication skills and ability to work independently.
• Expertise in understanding and analyzing requirements
• Participate in pair programming and peer reviews. You'll collaborate with other engineers on problems of all shapes and sizes, from code to new ideas and methodologies.
• Incorporate automated testing into development and maintenance procedures
• Strong Knowledge of data structure, functional programming and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean Python code
• Proficiency with modern development tools, like Git.
• Experience with both consuming and designing RESTful APIs.
• Suggest any enhancements or changes that are required to stay up with modern security and development best practises.
• Must have Cloud understanding.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, analyzes, and documents software applications across multiple project teams and applications.
• Investigates and analyzes verbal and written requests for application software.
• Excellent teamwork and communication abilities.
• Write backend code/scripts/APIs in programming languages like Python, BASH scripting, Dash development.
• Should understand HPC operations.
• Maintains high standards of quality for code, functional specification documentation, and deliverables.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Ability to work with tight deadlines and multiple competing priorities.
• Write efficient, secure, clean, scalable and robust Python code that is effective.
• Test and troubleshoot the application to ensure its performance.
• Ability to optimize the application for performance.
• Keep up to date with recent developments in Google Cloud.
• Interact with development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives.
• Participate in troubleshooting of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
• Documentation skills to track the development and implementations.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.

Desired Skills:

• Python, Unit test cases (Must).
• Bash scripting [Must].
• Dash Development [Must].
• Docker (Must).
• HPC Operations [Good to have].
• Google Cloud Platform (Must).
• Data Structures / Object oriented programming concepts (Must).
• Experience in building Google cloud solutions and/or microservices.
• Knowledge of Git.