Technical Lead - Python

Technical Lead

Experience : 8-10 Years

Location : Remote

Key Responsibilities :

- Architect, build, and optimize APIs, worker services, and event-driven systems leveraging Confluent Kafka.

- Define and enforce coding standards, testing strategies, and development best practices.

- Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or other tools and manage secure and scalable deployments.

- Work with Docker, Terraform, and GCP infrastructure services including Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager, Artifact Registry, and Eventarc.

- Guide the integration of monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.

- Drive initiatives around performance tuning, caching (Redis), and data transformation including XSLT, XML/XSD processing.

- Support version control and code collaboration using Git/GitHub.

- Mentor team members, conduct code reviews, and ensure quality through unit testing frameworks like Pytest or unittest.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable and maintainable solutions.

Mandatory Skills :

Programming & Frameworks :

- Expert in Python and experienced with FastAPI or equivalent web frameworks.

- Strong knowledge of Async I/O, Pydantic Settings.

- Hands-on with Pytest or unittest.

- Experience with Docker, Terraform, and Kafka (Confluent).

Version Control & DevOps :

- Experience with any version control.

- Proven CI/CD pipeline implementation experience.

Cloud & Infrastructure :

- Hands-on experience with any cloud provider.

Data Processing :

- Knowledge of XSLT transformations, XML/XSD processing.

Monitoring & Observability :

- Familiar with integrating monitoring/logging solutions, New relic preferred.

Databases & Storage :

- Experience with any database/storage solution.

- Understanding of caching mechanisms.