Role Overview :

We are looking for a Principal Python Full Stack Developer to define the technical architecture and engineering strategy for enterprise-scale web applications and digital platforms.

The role involves guiding backend and frontend architecture, establishing engineering standards, driving platform scalability and security, and mentoring technical leaders across teams.

Key Responsibilities :

- Define the architecture and technical roadmap for scalable full stack platforms and enterprise applications.

- Lead architectural decisions across Python backend services, frontend applications, APIs, and data layers.

- Design distributed, cloud-native systems with a focus on availability, scalability, resilience, and maintainability.

- Establish standards for API design, application integration, component reuse, frontend architecture, and backend service development.

- Guide the selection of frameworks, libraries, databases, messaging platforms, and cloud technologies.

- Drive platform modernization, application re-engineering, and migration from legacy systems.

- Establish secure application architecture, identity and access management, data protection, and security review practices.

- Define performance engineering strategies for backend processing, database operations, frontend rendering, and high-volume API traffic.

- Guide database architecture, caching, asynchronous processing, and event-driven integration.

- Establish best practices for automated testing, CI/CD, observability, deployment automation, and production readiness.

- Partner with engineering leaders, enterprise architects, product stakeholders, and infrastructure teams to align technical strategy with business goals.

- Review critical designs and implementations, assess technical risks, and ensure long-term architectural sustainability.

- Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leads while strengthening engineering capabilities across teams.

- Drive engineering productivity, code quality, developer experience, and technical debt reduction.

- Lead resolution of complex production issues and define preventive strategies for system reliability.

Required Skills :

- Extensive hands-on experience with Python and large-scale application development.

- Deep expertise in Python frameworks such as Django and FastAPI.

- Strong experience designing enterprise-grade frontend applications using React.js, Angular, or equivalent frameworks.

- Advanced knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript, frontend performance, component architecture, and responsive application design.

- Proven expertise in API architecture, microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise integration.

- Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL database architecture, caching, and data consistency.

- Experience architecting and operating applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native deployment.

- Expertise in application security, performance engineering, reliability, and observability.

- Strong understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, and maintainable system design.

- Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and guide multiple development teams.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience with high-availability, high-traffic enterprise platforms.

- Familiarity with platform engineering, API gateways, service mesh, and developer platforms.

- Experience defining architecture standards, technical governance, and engineering roadmaps.

- Knowledge of SRE practices, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives.

Key Competencies :

- Strategic technical leadership, architecture ownership, engineering excellence, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and alignment of technology investments with business priorities.