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Position: Python Developer
Location: Fort Mill, SC/ NYC, NY
Duration: Full-Time
 
ROLE SUMMARY
Seeking a Senior Python Backend API Engineer with deep hands-on experience building and operating production-grade backend APIs.
The candidate must demonstrate strong ownership, technical depth, and independent execution capability.
MANDATORY SCREENING CRITERIA (ALL REQUIRED)
1. Core Python Backend Expertise
• 5+ years of hands-on Python backend development
• Designed and implemented REST APIs from scratch
• Strong experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django REST Framework
• Must be currently writing production Python code
2. API Design & Security
REST principles: resource modeling, versioning, idempotency
• Authentication & authorization: JWT, OAuth2, API keys
• Error handling, logging, and observability
3. Database & Data Handling
Strong experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Schema design, indexing, query optimization
• Transactions and data integrity
4. Engineering Discipline
Clean, maintainable, testable code
• Unit and integration testing
• Independent debugging of production issues
• Refactoring legacy or poorly structured codebases
NICE-TO-HAVE (STRONG ADVANTAGE)
• AWS or cloud exposure (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM)
• Docker (required if Kubernetes is mentioned)
• Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
• Async Python, background jobs, or message queues

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DATE POSTED
January 12, 2026
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