11+ yrsGurugramOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 35–60 LPA
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About This Role
- Own and set architecture and engineering standards for Python systems across multiple teams, defining the technical roadmap and ensuring engineering practices like TDD and AI-first delivery.
- Lead and resolve critical production incidents, drive large-scale migrations, framework upgrades, deprecations, and coordinate use of AWS Lambda and Kubernetes with Platform Engineering.
- Set hiring bar for Python engineers, mentor senior engineers, maintain engineering standards for API design, data, security, observability, and testing, and work cross-region to align technical plans with business goals.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 11 years of professional software development experience in Python, including 5 years in system architecture roles.
- 3 years of experience owning engineering standards adopted beyond own team and mentoring senior engineers.
- Experience working in globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Expert Python developer with deep knowledge of asyncio, GIL, concurrency, HTTP APIs, data stores (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB) and event-driven architectures (SQS, Kafka).
- Experience in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform/AWS CDK), observability tools, and security standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC).
- Demonstrated leadership in setting technical standards, driving large-scale technical initiatives, mentoring engineering leaders, and collaborating effectively across distributed teams and stakeholders.